RARA-AVIS: city vs. country

McHale, Steve (SMcHale@filenet.com)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 07:37:11 -0800 RE: Mbdlevin@aol.com who is interested in country vs. city in hard
boiled fiction. I don't believe city is a prerequisite for the good
hardboiled stuff although it does help. I think of some of the highlights of
my hardboiled readings and many of them are more rural:

Fox Valley Murder by John Holbrook Vance (jeez this one is hard to
find)
Detour by Helen Nielsen
The Invader by Richard Wormser
The Burning Season by Richard Dundee
The Name of The Game is Death by Dan J. Marlowe
Many of the James Lee Burke stories are set in the rural Louisiana.

Then there is the movie: At Close Range. Not hardboiled but
certainly a satifying rural-noir.
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