RE: RARA-AVIS: Chemical Dependence and Hard-Boiledness (was:
Mark Sullivan (ANONYMEINC@webtv.net)
Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:24:58 -0400 (EDT)
Many PIs in the last decade or two have started to use drugs
(or at
least finally admit to inhaling). Off the top of my head I can
think of
Crumley's heroes, G.M. Ford's wonderful Leo Waterman, Dan
Cormany's Dan
Kruger, who shares a joint with a young runaway he was hired to
find,
and Pelecanos's Nick Stefanos. Almost without exception,
though, the
drugs are used with alcohol, so it still reads much the same,
while
adding a contemporary hip signifier to say This isn't your
Dad's private
eye.
Mark
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