Robert B. Parker just did not want anybody else to write the rest of POODLE SPRINGS, so he said yes to do it. But I don't want anybody to write any more Philip Marlowe "pastiches" except Raymond Chandler himself. I believe Chandler did not want anybody else to write "fake" Marlowe stories. I think the best Chandler imitator at the present is Loren D. Estleman. Chandler used the Mallory name for Black Mask, but he could not use the same name for Dime Detective according to the contract, so he made up the other name for the "same character"--John Dalmas. Well, I don't know why he later changed "Mallory" to "Dalmas" in "Smart-Aleck Kill," in the collection, either. Jiro Kimura ********************************************* Jiro Kimura Kanazawa, JAPAN e-mail: jkimura@nsknet.or.jp The Gumshoe Site (http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~jkimura/) ********************************************* - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca