Mike Orsoe (orsoe@tsoft.com)
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:31:47 -0700 (PDT)
Maybe I should clarify my original statement (either that or
I'm the only one on the list who has read all three
authors).
it is my belief that the three differnet protagonists even
though they are written by three very different authors all
could be the same guy, either that or the way they go about
solving mysteries is more common than I thought.
All three characters Beaumont, Bosche, and Davenport all have
a healthy distrust of authority figures, all have this I'm
right you're wrong attitude, all will solve murders no matter
what the costs to their personal lives. They're all around
the same age although I think Bosche might be older than the
other two having served in Vietnam, and two out of three are
rich and are working as Detectives mainly cause it's what
they do and the money is irrelevent, the solving of murders
is what's relevant.
Now I admit to not reading a lot of hardboiled (I think
Jance's Beaumont is more hardboiled than her Joanna Brady and
90% of the Sisters in Crime authors I've read) mysteries,
having only been really into mysteries for the past four
years since I got my job at a bookstore specializing in
mysteries (in theory, Mystery person doesn't like Spillane or
Holmes so they're on her don't take in list (we're a used
bookstore)), so these may be characteriestics of many
hardboiled Detectives and I'm only just cluing into that fact
which is the reason I signed up to this list so I could do my
job better now that the mystery person is out on
disability.
So does my theory hold water or should I excuse myself from
the list and go back to Dorothy-L and discuss Koko and Yum
Yum ad nauseum? ; )
Mike Orsoe
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