Jason wrote:
"In the mid to late nineties the term noir wasn't nearly as
widely to describe fiction as it is now. Do you agree or was
this just my perception?"
I'd agree. I probably thought of the Black Lizard books, say,
as crime novels, but didn't use theword noir (in fact,
they're why I finally had to stop using the term mysteries
for any crime/murder related book). I'm trying to think of
when I started using the term noir to describe this kind of
book, probably after I joined this list long ago.
"I don't think you can have a PI in noir fiction, unless it's
a Dave Zeltzerman novel)..."
Dave's and Marc Behm's Eye of the Beholder (great book, have
so far avoided the movie, would like to see the French
version), probably a few others, but I'd agree with your
overall point.
Mark
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