I loved Encyclopedia Brown. Plus Emil and the Detectives was
the first
time I came up against the truism that the book is always
better than
the movie, particularly when it came to live-action
Disney.
In high school, I read all of Bond and a few Spillanes, but
it was
reading Chandler during my first year at college that hooked
me on
hardboiled. Of course, I was already predisposed to PIs,
thanks to
Mannix.
Mark
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