The Phil Vance books are silly fun,
as cozies often can be. But they are about as close to the
antithesis of harboiled as one can come.
James
-----Original Message----- From: William Denton <
buff@pobox.com> To: RARA-AVIS <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Date: Thursday, September 14, 2000
9:41 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Philo Vance: how many eggs?
>Hi,
>
>I picked up one of S.S. Van Dine's Philo Vance
mysteries tonight, because
>that series has a lot of footnotes in it, and I like
novels with footnotes
>(I have a list on my web site of the ones I know
about, if anyone's
>interested). On the back cover, it says, "S.S. Van
Dine was the
>forerunner of the modern hard-boiled school of
mystery novelists." I've
>never heard this claim before. Is there anything in
it, or is it just a
>bunch of malarkey? I always figured Vance was in the
fey Ellery Queen
>vein (although Inspector Queen is a hard
case).
>
>
>Bill
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lector.
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