Re: RARA-AVIS: Tropical Noir

From: Ed Lynskey ( e_lynskey@yahoo.com)
Date: 06 Mar 2008


Ed Lacy's P.I. Touie Moore's second title MOMENT OF UNTRUTH is a breezy caper set in Mexico City.

Ed Lynskey

--- harry.lerner@mail.mcgill.ca wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> On a completely new topic...I'm just curious about what's out
> there in
> terms of noir set in tropical environs. I know, for example,
> that the
> first third of Ross MacDonald's TROUBLE FOLLOWS ME takes place
> in
> Hawaii during WW2 and that Raoul Whitfield's Jo Gar stories
> are set in
> the Phillipines, but what other tropical settings have been
> used in
> noir or hard-boiled literature?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Best,
> Harry
>
>
>
> RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

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