Channing wrote:
It's hard to imagine Spillane is being completely earnest
when in one Mike Hammer (I can't remember which one, the
titles all tend to blend together in my mind) Mike spends the
entire book having the hots for the femme fatale... but
something prevents him from kissing her. And then the big
reveal is-- duh-duh-duh, she's a dude. Come on, Mike is such
a red-blooded macho man, but he can't tell if the "hot dame"
is a man or woman UP CLOSE!?! It's an astonishingly stupid
twist.
************ It might have been a popular plot back then, and
it's still dredged up occasionally. It was used by John Evans
(I think I have the author's name right) in one of his Halo
novels. It was fairly obvious and, like you, I thought it
stupid.
miker
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