Re: Re[2]: RARA-AVIS: Broadly speaking

William Denton (buff@vex.net)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 16:54:34 -0400 (EDT) On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 RMINOT@aol.com wrote:

: So, for those of us who have already read and reread all the great
: hardboiled writers and would like to discuss hard-boiled and noirish
: in a contemporary setting, why not include new crime novelists whose
: poin of view is that of the killer (and a serial killer is really
: iften just a killer who gets away with it) or that of an FBI
: profiler, or even the victim?

We can do that ... if it's hardboiled, or there's sufficient evidence
to merit debate on the subject.

: Must we read only new crime novels set in the past (or great oldies
: Out of the Past)?

No ... but we must read hardboiled stories, because that's what the
list is about.

We don't all sit around re-reading our Frank Gruber stories, or
bemoaning the state of the mystery since Spillane started acting. But
we're all hardboiled fans, and we're not going to start reading, I
don't know, Nelson DeMille or someone like that. "New crime novelist
whose point of view is the killer" is not sufficient reason for
hardboiled fans to run out to the bookstore.

Bill

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