>> I think that this is a UK problem - any crime
writer who writes anything
>that
>> may be construed as the tinyest bit hardboiled
is instantly acclaimed as
>the
>> British Ellroy, so prune your prose and throw in
a bit off effing and
>> blinding and some casual drugs references (often
hugely unconvincing!) and
>> you're there. .. I am
>> yet to find much in the way of decent British
noir/hardboiled but will be
>> pleased to be pointed at some.
Just as a matter of curiosity, has anybody besides me read JJ
Connolly's LAYER CAKE, which I thought was pretty good? On
the whole, British hb/noir is not like the American: very
different societies. (Nor do we have talking foxes or
crime-solving cats, I feel meanly compelled to point out.)
However, in some moods both Val McDermid and Minette Walters
go pretty noir, and Val has done one quite adequately hbish
novel recently.
Marianne Macdonald
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