At 3/14/2008, Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
>Gardner's A.A. Fair books come closest, maybe --
although the action
>is as old-fashioned pulpy and often as hard-boiled as
you'd like,
>Donald Lam's scams are often based on sound, if
obscure, legal
>theory (Gardner was a lawyer).
>
>Any other suggestions for hard-boiled (or noir, I
guess) legal
>thrillers? Does such a cat really exist?
Hi -
I'm a lawyer. I like Thompson. I like Chandler. (That's my
qualifications for the following.)
I'm not keen on the A.A. Fair titles. I don't think Gardner
was a careful writer.
See if you can find the novels by C.W. Grafton (Sue Grafton's
dad). Probably out of print. Old man Grafton was a lawyer,
and I liked his books, which had a legal twist to them. They
weren't whodunits, but I would not call them hard-boiled,
either. Just pretty good reads.
Bye. Randy Krbechek Fresno, CA
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