Miker,
Re your comment below:
> Thanks, Todd. I was fairly sure, from former
posts,
> that Evans was a pseudonym, but I couldn't
recall
> who it was.
John Evans was also the name of Chandler's PI character in
the short story "No Crime in the Mountains," sometimes
erroneously credited as one of the source short stories for
his novel THE LADY IN THE LAKE.
Choosing a pen name from Chandler's ouvre may have been
deliberate on Browne's part, for he made no bones about the
fact that Paul Pine was directly and deliberately modeled on
Marlowe. Indeed, Pine was one of the most slavish followers
of the "Marlowe Paradigm." And, for all that, still one of
the most enjoyable of all post-war PI characters.
If you enjoy Browne, I heartily recommend PORK CITY, an
historical police procedural fictionalizing the real-life
murder of Chicago TRIBUNE report Jake Lingle. The hero is
another real-life character, DA's Investigator Pat Roche,
who, in real life, was actually the lead detective on the
case. Browne was particularly proud of this book, and
justifiably so in my opinion.
JIM DOHERTY
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