Leonard did write "crime novels" look at Unknown Man No. 89.
Just in
the last few years, with Rum Punch, et al did he commence to
use humor
so much.
The term crime novel is identified to me more as an English
term along
with their "thriller".
Yes, I agree it seems to me to be a Brit term; in fact,
Patricia
Highsmith's Ripley series is my kind of "crime novel". I
don't care for
the current crop of "crime novels". I think of a crime novel
as more of
a "crime is committed and solved"; "thriller" is to me more
of the spy
novel.
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