Jerry Buck (PeteCastle@worldnet.att.net)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 07:51:43 -0700
> >Sue Grafton wrote . . . writes . . fantasies of
what being a PI is like.
>
> Oh, good one. As opposed to the real life stuff of
Daly and Chandler and
> Macdonald and everyone else from Adams to, er,
Zackel. Hey, it's
> almost all fantasy, even from the guys who actually
walked the walk, like
Hammett and
> Gores.
For my money,
Sue Grafton writes the best contemporary "shoe leather"
detective stories. Okay, Michael Connelly too.
No cowboy
sidekicks shooting the way to a solution, no dreams or
hallucinations leading the way, no baloney. Just pounding the
pavement and talking to people and working toward a
resolution.
Jerry
Buck
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