James Rogers feels,
>
> I don't care much for the _Long Goodbye_ flick, plus
which any
> detective story with a cat loses 10 points on the
hard-boiled scale. ...
> I still don't buy it. Chandler may have been a cat
freak, but Marlowe
> wouldn't have kept a pet at all. Though he would
have tolerated a dog
> better.
As one who has had both, I can definitely state that cats are
a hell of a lot more hard boiled than dogs. They are the
independent loners. Dogs crave your attention. Cats suffer
it. Crais' Elvis Cole has a cat. Spenser's descent from hard
boiled was sealed when he got Pearl, the wonder dog.
Mark
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