Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the welcome, I figured you'd be with this gang
with your Number One noir website.
The Roaring Twenties WAS a challenge when I first heard about
it from Michael Kurland. But I had already had a far bigger
challenge from Kurland himself---to do a Sherlock Holmes in
the Lost Years, 1891 to 1894!! Danny and Holmes, modern PI
and 19th Century consulting detective, together long before
Danny was born. How do I do that, and at the same time write
an authentic Dan Fortune story? The key lay in the way Dan
narrates his later novels and stories, and in character
sketches that had already appeared in various Dan Fortune
novels. After that, the Roaring Twenties story was
easy.
That's all I'm going to tell you. Go read the stories!
As for Dan's take on the current world situation, I'll have
to think about it. Give me some idea of what you mean by
"tweak," and by suggesting rirst person I assume you mean in
Dan's voice?
Being a Canadian doesn't entirely let you off the hook, any
more than being a Brit does. While Canada has mumbled against
the course the US and Tony Blair have taken, and so have
Britons, neither has stood up and genuinely disowned the 300
million pound gorilla south of your border. The only way to
defeat a bully is to stand up to him, say it like it is, and
declare that THIS emperor, too, has no clothes.
In the matter of where Danny may be, let's say he hasn't
exactly "moved," but if he's the man I think he is he's doing
what he should be doing, but what that is will have to wait
for him to tell it in due time. Probably not in the first new
book. I hope I live long enough to write it, or it may have
to be my last short story.
Best,
Dennis-Michael et. al.
-- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Burton Smith" <
kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 04,
2005 7:40 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Mr. Lynds, Mr.
Lynds...
>
> Hey, Dennis,
>
> Welcome to this little thing of ours. Keep your eyes
on the exits at
> all times.
>
> Anyway, Mike wrote:
>
> > Not least that I included a new Dan Fortune
story in my MAMMOTH BOOK
> > OF ROARING TWENTIES WHODUNNITS last year.
Welcome Dennis.
>
> Huh? I know Dan's getting along in years (while you,
of course, are
> just a wee young slip of a thing) but how does he
figure into the
> twenties?
>
> Is it a flashback tale? Or was Dan a precocious
little tyke (and a lot
> older than I thought). Or is this the equivalent of
an Elseworlds tale?
>
> And you wrote:
>
> > Dan Fortune, if he were still living in the
U.S....
>
> Dan moved? Say it ain't so...
>
>
> Kevin Burton Smith
> The Thrilling Detective Web Site
> 75 Years of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese
Falcon
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