>Do you think there are a lot of similiararites (heel
of a word, that)
>with the early Tucker and the early Scudder? Both are
'disgraced' ex-cops
>turning to PI work to try to resolve something. Both
have the same
>'feel' and settings. Westlake and Block were mates so
maybe they hit on
>the idea over a drink and let it run. Just a
thought.
I've often thought the same thing, and would love to ask the
authors about
it. (Larry? Are you lurking?)
The two characters' closest parallel is their need to purge
themselves of
guilt for an innocent's death. Tobin does it through
back-breaking
physical labor (building a useless wall in his backyard),
while Scudder
drops a tithe of his case payment in the nearest church
poor-box. That
guilt is missing from the more recent Scudders, and is one of
several
reasons I prefer the books prior to _When the Sacred Ginmill
Closes_.
Best,
Kathy
Katherine Harper
Department of English
Bowling Green State University
kharper@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Visit the W.R. Burnett Page at http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~kharper/
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