> > Could there be other unacknowledged links
between hard-boiled and romantic
> > writing?
>
>No, please, no.
Hmmm....all you big he-men types seem to be getting your
panties inordinately twisted over a little love stuff. What's
the deal?
Actually, many hard-boiled novels, and certainly most
post-Chandler
(or even post-Hammett) detective novels are romances, in the
original meaning of the word. The French word for novel is
romans.
But if you want to go into "romance," as it's commonly
understood today, you guys should know Harlequin started out
publishing all types of genre fiction some might even call it
pulp fiction), including crime and detective stuff by Wade
Miller, Robert Leslie Bellem, Harry Whittington, Frank Kane,
Ronald Cooke, James Hadley Chase, Day Keene, Cleve Adams,
David Montrose, Robert O. Saber and David Goodis. In a nice
nod to tradition, or something, they currently publish crime
and detective fiction, albeit with a heavy romance angle, and
probably about as hard-boiled as a tissue, under their
Intrigue imprint.
Still, I recently met one of their writers, Joyce Sullivan, a
former private eye herself. afraid to), but she herself is
one stand-up dame.
And then there's Casablanca, that sore spot where the romance
and hard-boiled genres touch gloves, and then back into their
respective corners.
Kevin Burton Smith The Thrilling Detective Web Site http://www.colba.net/~kvnsmith/thrillingdetective/
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