RARA-AVIS: Newer hardboiled

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Subject: RARA-AVIS: Newer hardboiled
From: "M. Taboada" <taboada@math.odu.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:01:13 -0400 (EDT)
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It seems to me that we are in the middle of a golden age of the
realistic mystery novel (call it hardboiled). Someone mentioned
Healy's Cuddy series, and I concur. What I like most about Cuddy is that
he keeps the cards close to his vest, and it's hard to know what
he will do next. Among ongoing series by newer authors, I like
Mosley's Easy Rawlins character - he doesn't know how to be a
detective but he and the world he lives in are memorable. Other
highly deserving authors of newish vintage are T. Jefferson Parker,
Max Allan Collins (he is more of a veteran), "our own" Russell
James, Dan Kavanaugh (an Englishman that I discovered recently,
and who writes stupendously well), and the already discussed
Michael Connelly.

Not to forget veterans who are deserving of far more attention,
like Joe Gores, Michael Collins, Arthur Lyons, Stephen Greenleaf,
James Crumley, and so on.

I recently re-read Gores's "Dead Skip" with great pleasure - Gores
strikes me as a true pulpster and DK as a quintessential hardboiled guy.

Regards, and apologies for rambling,

Mario Taboada
Old Dominion University
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