southpaw@altavista.net wrote:
> I just came upon this intriguing list today -- is
anyone familiar with
> any of the following author or books of (mostly)
hardboiled/noir
> criticism? If so, which of these can you
recommend?
> Bloody Murder:From the Detective Story to the Crime
Novel
> Author: Symons, Julian
This is a pretty entertaining and provocative history of the
whole genre. There's not much about other hardboiled writers
than Hammett, Chandler, Ross Macdonald and Latimer. Westlake,
John MacDonald and couple other guys get a brief, cynical
mention, and Symons hates Spillane, Peter Cheyney and James
Hadley Chase. Symons does like police procedurals and he
especially favours Ed McBain and also Chester Himes, about
whom he cannot decide whether to call his books police novels
or what. But Symons has read so much we know nothing about
and he makes up a cohesive history, so this is highly
recommended.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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