Ms Meaker,
In an essay about the Vin Packer novels in MURDER OFF THE
RACK, Jon Breen notes that after reading THE EVIL FRIENDSHIP,
Anthony Boucher said that you were as hardboiled as the best
of them.
I usually think of "tough guy" novels when hardboiled is
referred to, but in THE EVIL FRIENDSHIP, THE DAMNATION OF
ADAM BLESSING, COME DESTROY ME, AND SPRING FIRE, the emphasis
seems to be on characters that are decidedly not tough. What
do you think Boucher meant by calling your books
hardboiled?
Thank you, miker
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