southpaw@altavista.net
Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:40:01 -0400
>From the new issue of The Atlantic
magazine:
<
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99nov/9911detectives.htm>
>
N O V E M B E R 1 9 9 9
>
> Detectives aren't what they used to be
> by Stephen Budiansky
>
> WHAT strange epidemic has taken hold of
our
> detectives these days? I'm referring to
the
> detectives who inhabit the pages of novels,
and
> all I can say is that they are not the men
(or
> women) they used to be. Consider, for
example,
> these two quotations, the first from the
> private investigator Philip Marlowe in
Raymond
> Chandler's classic The Lady in the
Lake,the
> second from Detective Inspector John Rebus
in
> Ian Rankin's Strip Jack.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> THE 1990s detective can't shut up about
> anything. It's hard to go even a few
pages
> without being assaulted by a confession
of
> inner feelings.
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