> I think the joy in trashing them stems from
Chandler's
> essay "The Simple Art of Murder," which was as
much
> a debunking of traditional mysteries as it was a
spirited
> defense of the literary worth of hard-boiled
mysteries.
Remember that Chandler's essay was a direct response to
Sayers' introduction to her first OMNIBUS OF CRIME, in which
Sayers said that detective fiction "does not, and by
hypothesis never can, attain the loftiest level of literary
achievement." (He was also responding to Auden's esay "The
Guilty Vicarage," which said much the same thing.) Chandler
disagreed with Sayers and Auden, obviously.
Chandler's attacks on the sort of fiction that Sayers wrote
was thus not unprovoked, perhaps... but I am biased, I
admit.
~Marc
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