Well, that's a no-brainer. I don't think mentioning them in
the same breath
(or sentence, even) makes them Siamese twins. Hammett,
Chandler and
Macdonald are always mentioned together, too, and I don't
think they're
exactly clones, either, even if they are all men.
And the latest movie news, if someone's not shitting me:
Harrison Ford as,
presumably, an older Travis McGee, is being shopped around.
Have we read
any John D. MacDonald on the list yet?
And Robert Parker wrote a short piece on his (and other
writers' debt to
Macdonald) in INWARD JOURNEY, the book of essays on Macdonald
that I think
I mentioned before.
Kevin Smith
The Thrilling Detective Web Site
http://www.colba.net/~kvnsmith/thrillingdetective/
Now out: The February issue, with fiction from Robert Iles
and Leigh Brackett,
and Face the Face, our new contest for fans of paperback
eyes.! Yippy!
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