Jim,
I never ran into you at the few conventions I've gone to so I can't answer that, but I did qualify my comment by saying "most".
One mystery writer I know who is genuinely a tough guy (although he's probably too modest to think of himself like that) is Michael A. Black. Black belt in Tae Quon Do, built like a tank, also a cop, he's someone who probably could handle a couple of AQ (as Child likes to call them) in a darkened alley.
--Dave
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, JIM DOHERTY <jimdohertyjr@...> wrote:
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> Dave,
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> Re your comments below:
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> " . . . if anyone goes to a mystery convention like Bouchercon, you'll quickly learn that most hardboiled writers are not the tough guys they'd like to envision themselves as . . . "
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> Except, of course, for me.
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> JIM DOHERTY
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