This is a topic that seems to come up every other month or
so. From
what I can remember of those discussions, these seem to be
the points
most agreed upon:
1) Hardboiled novels do not contain charming grannies,
adorable
tots, or clever cats. If a granny, tot, or cat does
appear
in a hardboiled novel, it should leave as roadkill within
fifty pages
or less.
2) If a male and female character have more contact with each
other
than the brush of an elbow, the novel is not hardboiled, it
is a romance.
3) Boys read hardboiled mysteries, girls read cozies.
-----Diane Trap
trap@mail.libs.uga.edu
> Jerry Buck
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