I always liked the phrase my first wife invented for a brief
interview with the creators of the then "new" Columbo TV
series in her 1974 Black Mask piece: SOFT BOILED DETECTIVES
versus hard boiled detectives.
And Columbo is a classic soft boiled detective.
I'm not fond of "cozy," and I don't think distinctions should
be made bewteen women and male authors. (After all, who can
tell the sex behind the by line?) Anyone know whether
Trevanian is a man or a woman?
Keith
keithdeutsch@earthlink.net
RRandisi@aol.com wrote:
> To take the "hardboiled" dicussion a step further
the procedurals of
> Jonathan Craig and Ed McBain are definitely
hardboiled. "Hardboiled" and
> "Cozy" are two of the terms we hear the most, these
days, because they are so
> different.
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