Depends ... do you accept Amazon.com's declaration that "A is
for Alibi," etc., are hard-boiled works? Bookstores aren't
experts ... now if John Leonard were to say it was
hard-boiled, I'd pay some attention ... but that's because he
has proven to be an authoritative commentator on the subject
as far as I'm concerned.
"a.n.smith" wrote:
> It ain't hard-boiled? I hear many, many voices to
the contrary. How about
> this: generally considered to be in that
category?
>
> Just like the PREY books recently mentioned.
Although some say "not HB",
> the Mysterious Bookshop catalogs always list new
Sanford books as
> hard-boiled. Close enough to an expert
opinion?
-- volente Deo,
Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
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