Re: RARA-AVIS: RE: Faith and cynicism hand-in-hand in noir and hard-bolied ficti

From: Don Lee (donthepoet@yahoo.com)
Date: 03 Mar 2009

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    I wonder if there's a group devoted more specifically to British crime fiction...

    --- On Tue, 3/3/09, jacquesdebierue <jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:

    > From: jacquesdebierue <jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com>
    > Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: RE: Faith and cynicism hand-in-hand in noir and hard-bolied ficti
    > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
    > Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 2:59 PM
    > --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Don Lee
    > <donthepoet@...> wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > > Y'know, I've never read Jonathan Gash either,
    > though I ought -- I
    > love the British tv show and it introduced me to Ian
    > McShane, later
    > hero of "Deadwood," one of the best tv shows
    > ever. Just for the
    > curious, which Gash book would be a good intro?
    > >
    >
    > Good question. I have never read Gash, that I can recall.
    > The reason
    > so many mystery writers are not discussed here is that we
    > deal with a
    > relatively narrow slice of the pie. If you add
    > "mystery", "crime",
    > "suspense", etc., the pie is huge.
    >
    > Best,
    >
    > mrt

          



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