Re: RARA-AVIS: Definitions again: cozies and hard

james.doherty@gsa.gov
03 Mar 99 15:28:00 -0500 --UNS_gsauns2_3068736469
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Re Ed Duggan's and James Rogers's comments
below:

"I'm not sure that there has to be a *detective figure* in order to
qualify a text as hard boiled
[:flame suit off]"(Ed)


"Yeah, I agree...."The Killers", which a lot of folks regard as the
prototype hardboiled story doesn't make the cut by this definition."

But the 1946 film version, in which the story is treated as, essentially, the
first chapter of a novel would, oddly enough. After the two hit men clear out,
Edmund O'Brien, as a Continental Op-like insurance investigator, looks into the
victim's past to try to find a reason for his murder. The result is, IMHO, one
of the best PI films ever made. - Jim Doherty

James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
Mundus Vult Decipi

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