Jim Doherty:
> What Hammett did, that was done so seldom in
the
> traditional mystery (at that particular period),
was
> create characters you could believe would do
these
> things, and describe the events with such style
that,
> as Chandler put it, he wrote scenes that "seemed
never
> to have been written before."
Maybe that's one of Hammett's legacies: he forced even
traditional mystery writers to create believable characters
to act in a believable word. I understand things like this
happen in Ruth Rendell and P.D. James.
Juri
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