I appreciate Miker's reviews of the several hardboiled and
noir critical works.
It seems that when the history of hardboiled comes up,
Hemingway is mentioned not only for his style but
specifically with some of his stories and his novel "To Have
and Have Not."
John O'Hara's "Appointment in Sammara" is another mainstream
novel that I always classified as noir and in a sense as noir
as they gets in spite of the fact that the downhill character
is of a economically better class.
I thing that both books are as noir as they get, in spite of
the fact that they are written by otherwise mainstream
authors.
Combining Miker's reviews and the various to-the-point
comments. It looks to me as if this one is going to be a very
interesting month.
Best to you all,
Jack Bludis
http://www.jackbludis.com
*Shadow of the Dahlia* available at
MysteryLovesCompany.com
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