I was just re-reading some Hammett and I noticed that in
addiiton to having no life outside his work, (besides the
fact that he occasinally plays cards) the Continental OP
seems to have no ethnic backgound. This struck me as funny
because many of the other characters in the books have very
ethnic names, some of which are, of course, not very PC by
today's standards. I haven't read any Chandler in while, but
I don't seem to remember Marlowe having ethnicity
either.
This is in contrast to the more modern PI's who have complete
lives and come from a vast assortment of ethnic groups. I'm
not as well read in modern PI's as I should be (I've been
reading more crime ficiton stuff recently) The only one I can
think of off hand is Reed Farrell Coleman's Moe Prager who is
Jewish,
http://www.reedcoleman.com/street.html
I'm thinking of writing an article about this, so if anyone
could point me in the right direction I would be
grateful.
Pat Lambe
patlambe@patlambe.com http://patlambe.com
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