>From: "Rene Ribic" <
rribic@optusnet.com.au>
>I was find it interesting to see who thought what
about whom with the
>old writer guys like Browne & Spillane. It
appears that Spillane was a
>fan of Browne's. That other seminal PI writer,
Chandler had nowhere
near
>as high an opinion of him.
I know that Chandler looked down on all the writers who were
obviously influenced by him. He was particularly critical of
Ross Macdonald, probably because he seemed to offer the
biggest challenge. But my fading memory tells me that in one
of his letters Chandler singled out Browne and Roy Huggins
for doing the best jobs of imitating his style. I also seem
to recall that he and Browne were La Jolla neighbors, drank
together and were as friendly as Chandler was to any
competitor. Was there a letter critical of Browne that I
missed?
Dick Lochte
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