Dick,
Re your response to Patrick below:
"Hardboiled? Soft-boiled? Parboiled? I suppose it's in the
mind of the reader. But I think some (not all) of Francis'
novels are filled with too much sadistic violence and
detailed torture, too many depressed heroes with wives or
relatives dying of cancer or living in iron lungs, too many
animal mutilations, too many truly sociopathic villains to be
put in the Christie-Queen- Stout category. And if the Sid
Halley novels aren't hardboiled, with the hapless
jockey-turned- private detective getting more of his
destroyed hand lopped off in each, then I'd be hard-pressed
to come up with a book that is."
Well said! Saves me the trouble of saying it.
JIM DOHERTY
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