At 01:37 PM 4/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to see some discussion on what makes one
mystery
>> hardboiled--and another not.
>>
>
>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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