Doug wrote:
"Nobody ever seems to want to listen to my pet idea about
this :), but I would like to suggest again that there's such
a thing as the
"non-hardboiled private eye novel". . . . (A lot of the later
Scudders also seem to me to belong to this catagory, although
I haven't read EVERYBODY DIES.)"
I'll agree with this. There is a hefty overlap between the PI
genre and hardboiled, but there are hardboiled books without
PIs and PI books that aren't hardboiled.
And I agree that the recent Scudders, including Everybody
Dies, falls into the latter category. Isn't it ironic that
the books got less hardboiled when Scudder finally got a PI
license. Or maybe not, considering one of the things I value
in hardboiled is the outsider status of the hero and
Scudder's going legit is another step in his increasing
respectability.
Mark
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