Jim Blue wrote: Doc Ford who isn't a PI, but who behaves like
one. He has more friends than Travis McGee and though he
lives alone he doesn't have trouble forming strong, balanced
relationships with women. Derek Strange out of G.P. Gideon
Lowry, John Leslie's semi happy man. John Lutz's Ray Carver,
and also, his bemused Alo Nudger, Robert Crais's laconic
Elvis Cole, Max Allan Collins's Nate Heller, Jeremiah Healy's
John Cuddy (when he isn't moping), Bob Randisi's Nick
Delvecchio, Bill Pronzini's "Nameless" (especially in the
later stories) Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone, William Campbell
Gault's Joe Puma, Sara Paretsky's V.I.W. etc.
and talk
about "cheating," you don't get to eliminate Shell Scott just
because he fails to fall into the loser list.
These people don't live (fictional)
lives derived from the Donna Reed show, but they don't appear
to be any more loserlike than the average Joe.
********* That's a straight list of the last few you've read
and not a stacked deck of the ones you can name? And they are
all have at least a halfway good private life? Well, I'll be
darned. Like you mentioned earlier, it must have something to
do with a conscious selection.
And thanks for the great list, too, Jim. I've got a few of
those writers' books sitting on the shelf, and I'll have to
see if I can fill in the gaps on the other ones.
miker
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