One of the best things about the programmed aspects of this
list is that it prompts people to try authors new to them or
return to old favorites. I've admired and enjoyed Dennis
Lynds' fiction under its various guises for more than forty
years. But time has passed since my last foray and having
Dennis as a guest here prompted me to pick up a Dan Fortune
novel that I had missed before: NIGHT OF THE TOADS. What a
nice read!! The older I get the more importance I place on
"voice." It provides comfort to the reader, especially in a
series. It is what builds a following. Favorite series become
like comfort food--something that starts with an advantage of
familiarity without limiting too much what may follow.
Here's a question for Dennis: how did you decide on First
Person for the Dan Fortune stories? Slot-Machine Kelly was in
third person as were the Mike Shayne novelettes ghosted at
the same time under the Brett Halliday name. Given that much
you were writing was in the third person, what made you turn
to first person?
My opinion is that first person works very well for Dan
Fortune. The series fits into the PI tradition very
comfortably and I don't think it would have been the same in
third person.
I've known people who would not even bother to read third
person PI novels. Despite my fondness for the first person, I
have never gone that far. But it is one of the crucial
decisons that every author has to make. Hence my question to
Dennis.
Richard Moore
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