Jim Beaver asked about third-person PIs. THE MALTESE FALCON
was
written in the third-person. More recently, there have been
John Lutz's
Fred Carver series and James W. Hall's Thorn books.
In general, I think first-person allows the writer to get
into the
voice of the lead and establish a pervasive hardboiled
atmosphere. This
process seems to take a while longer in the third-person.
Other
thoughts?
Gerald
Gerald
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