Mark,
Re your question below:
> I thought your class dealt with the early
Chandler.
> How does that
> engage the question of why it is always
Chandler's
> name that is dropped
> in reviews of SF books with
noir/hardboiled
> overtones?
Reading the early Chandler gives one an understanding of the
circumstances that led to his name being used as "shorthand
for hard-boiled."
JIM DOHERTY
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