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> Recently Mark Sullivan suggested that Thomas Harris's
cop
charcters
> are not hard-boiled because"
> "they are too institutional. They generally work
within the
system,
> not as an outsider."
>
> What about Hammett's Continental Op, Nebel's Donahue,
or Gores's
DKA
> operatives? All of them hard-boiled, and all of them
working,
quite
> happily, within an organizational structure. I still
think that
any
> crime novel that is tough-minded and colloquial is
hard-boiled.
How
> many minutes it's been boiling may be a matter of
debate, but not
its
> hardness relative to most crime fiction. As for
hard-boiled
serial
> killer books, there've been at least two, possibly
more, books in
> Block's Matt Scudder series dealing with serial
killers (*A Stab
in
> the Dark* in which Matt is hired to prove that one
murder in a
series
> credited to aparticular killer was actually the work
of somone
else
> comes immediately to mind). It's not whether or not
the villain
is a
> serial killer that makes a book hard-boiled, it's the
attitude
with
> which the material is handled. Christie's *The ABC
Murders*
obviously
> isn't. Benjamin Schutz's *Embrace the Wolf* is. - Jim
Doherty
>
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