I've written a lot of cat stories for anthologies and
magazines over the last few years, many of which I would
classify as hardboiled (never "noir" - they're too
well-written for that!); and several more that i would say
belonged to the sub-genre "cosy hardboiled". Seems to me that
cats go very well with loner tecs, disappointed women, lives
of quiet desperation, bent cops and scratchy old blues LPs.
Though I suspect some of the hardcore cat-haters would
declare that a story with a cat in it is by definition cosy.
One word of warnig to them - membership of The Secret Inner
Circle of Crime Writing Insiders Who Give Each Other All the
Best Jobs is restricted, by charter, to proven
cat-owners.
- Mat "Two Cats" Coward
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