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RARA-AVIS: Timothy Harris
Timothy Harris wrote two Thomas Kyd private eye novels, as Etienne Borgers
listed. He has two novelaizations: Heat Wave (Dell, 1979) and Steelyard
Blues (Bantam, 1972). His private eye novels are *brilliant* imitations of
Raymond Chandler. Yes, I want to read more of his stuff. However, he has
sold his soul to Hollywood. He is writing screenplays these days and no
more of private eye novels. What a pity.
When Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler went to Hollywood, their
writings seemed to go bad. I guess they realized it and hated themselves.
These days, Andrew Bergman is not writing any more of Jack LeVine private
eye novels anymore but directing movies--I mean, films. Roger Simon writes
Moses Wine novels once in a while when he is not directing and writing
films. I know Hollywood pays more than ten times as much as any publishers
pay, but Tinsell Town usually corrupts good writers.
Jiro Kimura
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Jiro Kimura
Kanazawa, JAPAN
e-mail: jkimura@nsknet.or.jp
The Gumshoe Site (http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~jkimura/)
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