Ed Lynskey wrote:
I'll test drive Carter Brown in a few days with a wary
eye.
************ My feeling about The Body was that if Carter
Brown had taken the time, he would have been close to JDM in
style and quality. Unfortunately, there was little call for
that in the environment he was writing in.
In 1939 the Australian government imposed a tariff on
American books that was so high it effectively cut off the
supply. Up until this time Australia had been an avid
consumer of America's hardboiled fiction. More from my
review:
Starved for femmes fatale and smoking Thompsons, Australia
rose to the challenge to produce its own homegrown
hardboiled. Publishers such as Horwitz and Cleveland sought
out local authors and paid them by the word to churn out
hundreds of short novels every month. It was commercial
literature at its worst. The plots were corny and the dialog
vapid, but the publishers were paying for quantity, not
quality. At first they imitated that which they replaced. The
settings were predominantly big U.S. cities, and lots of
alcohol mixed with beautiful but dangerous women to revolve
around a murder.
miker
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