: If the actual Homicide series was in book form (not those
limp,
: pallid tie-in things they released a while back), we'd be
going over
: each book in loving detail.
Perhaps, but it is a TV show, not a book, and the primary
focus of
this list is works on paper. I've eased up quite a bit on my
nagging,
but I do ask that people remember that RARA-AVIS is meant to
be a
place to talk about hardboiled fiction, that you read, not
watch, or
hear, or have beamed into your neocortex. Adaptations are
certainly
fair game, as is a lot of other stuff - there's no dearth of
possible
topics - but please keep the main target in mind before you
send a
mesage.
On another note, I'd like to thank the people who recommended
Donald
Hamilton's Matt Helm books. I'd associated them with the Dean
Martin
movies and other series of books like Mack Bolan's Tough Men
With Guns
or The Destabilizer, but the comparisons to Hammett are apt.
They're
fast, lean, tough and sometimes quite funny books.
Bill
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