serbes@ibm.net
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 16:45:25 +0200
1-Raymond Chandler 2-Charles Willeford 3-Jim Thompson 4-James
Ellroy 5-Manuel Vazquez Montalban
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----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Blumenthal <blumenidiot@21stcentury.net>
To: <rara-avis@icomm.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 8:04 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS:
blown away
> I think this is the date and group to ask this
question as its answer
would
> involve looking back for those who reply and perhaps
plannning ahead for
> people who want ideas for new books.
>
> What established hard boiled authors have ever you
read wose work that so
> blew you away on first exposure that you tried to
find and then read all
> they had written as soon as possible? To make sure
there are not really
> long lists, let's hold down the number to
five.
>
> My answers would be pretty conventional:
> Hammett
> Chandler
> Ross MacDonald
> Ross Thomas
> Crais
>
> I would have Richard Stark as my fifth if author's
using pseudonyms are
> considered separate.
> Mark
>
>
>
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