Juri said: ". . .the line coming from James M. Cain is
more interesting than the line coming from Hammett and
Chandler. We wouldn't have Jim Thompson, we wouldn't have Day
Keene's and Gil Brewer's best works etc. The other line has
lots of crappy imitators, full of empty PI bubble and
overdose of similes and supposedly funny lines."
We wouldn't have Charles Williams, for sure. Oddly enough,
John D. MacDonald's most Cain-influenced novel, WEEP FOR ME,
is one that he didn't like and wouldn't allow to be reprinted
except once. Maybe he thought it was too much like Cain.
CLEMMIE is another one that seems influenced by Cain, but
maybe MacDonald liked that one better. I think it was
reprinted often.
Bill Crider
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