>At 05:24 PM 8/15/98 -0400, Mark wrote:
>>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.
> Not sure that it is really that new, though,
considering the
>laudenaum scene with the Op in RED HARVEST.
Or the seven percent solution coursing through the
quintessential private
eye ... Sherlock Holmes.
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