>are steamy hot, and drive people to unthinkable acts. Where does that >Chandler line about the wind coming in and wives eyeing the kitchen >knife come from? That famous line is from Chandler's story "Red Wind," by the way. Regarding rural hard-boiled settings, I believe Jim Thompson wrote some; also, there are the swamp or backwoods sagas and fit the category. The Travis McGee series occasionally takes place in rural settings, as well. Still, I usually associate hard-boiled with urban settings, even though it isn't always. Richard King (rking@vunet.vinu.edu - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca