Mario Taboada (matrxtech@yahoo.com)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:34:08 -0800 (PST)
Call me primitive and juvenile, but I enjoyed this Walker
adventure. It's not Great Literature, but it's a solid P.I.
novel.
As to Bill's question, it seems that Estleman takes great
pains to make Walker a "Raceless" detective.
As to the future of the traditional hardboiled P.I. novel,
it's uncertain at best. There are only so many was of
recycling the cliché³® Some people keep it going respectably,
fine writers like Greenleaf, Pronzini, Crumley, Block, and
Michael Collins (Gores, too, but his novels are in a totally
different vein). Yet, there is a feeling of having read it
all before, though never in exactly the same
formulation.
Regards,
===== Mario Taboada
"To a mouse, cheese is cheese: that is why mousetraps work."
(Unattributed)
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