Inspector Van Der Valk was replaced by his wife, Arlette.
After Nicolas Freeling killed him off.
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From: Mario Taboada[SMTP:matrxtech@sprintmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 1998 10:21 PM
To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Reading suggestions
Peter Walker [on the remarkable coincidence that both he and
I mentioned
Constantine's "Joeys's Case" simultaneously, so to
speak]:
<<..because I was also going to post a question along
the lines of who
is K.C Constantine? - the name being a
pseudonym.>>
Nobody knows. Some people thought that Constantine was James
Crumley
(there *are* quite a few similarities, especially in
dialogue), but
there is no truth to it. I have heard speculation on
Constantine's
"true" identity ranging widely, to the point of considering
John Updike
as a suspect. But nothing has ever been substantiated.
The David Godine reissue of K.C.'s first two novels has a
postscript in
which the editor (I forget his name) mentions talking with
Constantine
on the phone and corresponding with him - but Constantine
never gave any
hint about who he was.
It's rather remarkable that he has been able to maintain his
identity
secret for 26 years...he's never toured, signed, gone to
conventions, or
appeared in any public forum. One could conjecture that this
guy *wants*
to be ignored.
Incidentally, the other day I saw an annoucement of a new
Constantine
novel - Mario Balzic is now retired, and Carlucci is the
protagonist.
This following of the hero until retirement and then
replacement by a
subaltern as protagonist may well be a first in crime
fiction. But then,
nothing about Constantine's fiction is ordinary - he's a
great American
original.
Regards,
Mario Taboada
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