As far as third person-narrated private eyes go, let's not
forget Joseph
Hansen's David Brandstetter. And I just read the first
John
Shannon/Jack Liffey novel, third person. Earl Emerson writes
his Thomas
Black books in the first, but his Mac Fontana (okay, he's not
a PI, but
still) books in the third. And since they were just brought
up, Don
Winslow's Neal Carey books are in the third. I think it's
pretty evenly
distributed between the two.
So, are there any second-person hardboiled novels? I would
guess they
are about as rare as the subjective camera work of Lady in
the Lake is
in movies, a gimmick that gets old fairly quickly.
Mark
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