Yeah, we were; it was great! The panel on Raymond Chadler was
-fab-,
just -fab- But Rick and I attended the Erotica panel the day
before.
W.C. Fields said something about not working with kids and
animals, but
then he never met Val McDermid (what she -didn't- say was
fab, also).=20
I thought the most interesting thing about the Chandler panel
was the
statement by Bob Wade--'you can't outline Chandler'. He told
the story
about the screen-play (Faulkner was one) writers who were
adapting
something (Farewell My Lovely???) and they got to the end and
looked at
each other and said "well, who shot the chauffeaur [duh,
Mari, driver]
??" and realized he had a "plot line he didn't tie up". This
is what I
couldn't vocalize about why I like hard-boiled rather than
"cozy". You
can outline Agatha Crhistie, but you can't outline
Chandler.=20
>=20
> There was also a lot of energy being displayed about
Connelly=92s lates=
t,
> Blood Work, which was selling like the proverbial hot
cake. I=92ll be
I started it on the way home (after I read THE FOX AND THE
PUSSYCAT--a
serial killer Aunt Deminty--by Barbara Sohmers). I like the
way it
starts and you're pretty quickly into the story.
I think another point by the Chandler panel is that "you
don't know much
about Marlowe's background" in other words, you don't have
somebody
looking for his mother's killer (Elroy???) it's in the
present (no back
story to fool with) you tells your story and you gets
out.=20
--=20
whose DOROTHYL nom is Kate Warne the ex-Pinkerton in
The Woman With the Rose Tattoo by Mari Hall
See y'all at Left Coast Crime 8--been there, done that
NEXT Bouchercon Philly Oct 1-4
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