Re: RARA-AVIS: The 100 Best Characters in Hard Boiled Writen Fiction Since 1900 - the voting

From: Kerry ( gsp.schoo@skylinc.net)
Date: 03 Apr 2002


Okay here they are, my twenty. Take them quick before I change my mind.

Kerry

> 18. Bernie Gunther (series, Philip Kerr)
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> 21. Blackbird Armand Degas (KILLSHOT, Elmore Leonard)
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> 43. Charlie Arglist (THE ICE HARVEST, Scott Phillips)
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> 45. Chili Palmer (GET SHORTY and BE COOL, Elmore Leonard)
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> 65. Dick Contino (DICK CONTINO'S BLUES, James Ellroy)
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> 74. Dudley Smith (L.A. QUARTET series and CLANDESTINE, James Ellroy)
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> 77. Easy Rawlins (series, Walter Mosley)
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> 79. Eddie Coyle (THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, George V. Higgins)
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> 125. Jackie Burke (RUM PUNCH, Elmore Leonard)
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> 148. Kinsey Millhone (series, Sue Grafton)
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> 152. Lew Archer (series, Ross Macdonald)
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> 180. Mike Hammer (series, Mickey Spillane)
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> 202. Nick Stefanos (series, George Pelecanos)
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>205. Parker (series, Richard Stark)
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> 211. Peter Bondurant (UNDERWORLD USA trilogy, James Ellroy)

> 212. Philip Marlowe (series, Raymond Chandler)
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> 240. Skink a.k.a. The Governor (recurring character, Carl Hiassen)
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> 245. Socrates Fortlow (series, Walter Mosley)
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> 252. The Continental Op (series, Dashiell Hammett)
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> 264. V.I. Warshawski (series, Sara Paretsky)

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