In my heart of hearts I know that truth tends to be stranger
than fiction. The average DC drive-by may be boring, but
Susan Smith drowning her babies has potential as well as a
woman who wanted to be murdered as part of her sexual
fantasies and found a guy to do it. The murder for hire here
that involved the how-to book. John Douglas's books are
filled with interesting murders. Just because they're related
(as in Hammett's "A Man Called Spade"), insane, accidents, or
all of the above they are necessarily going to be boring. The
author themselves may be boring, but realism was never
literal to begin with.
-- Anthony Dauer
Hard-boiled Noir http://www.adau.net/judas_ezine/toc.htm
-----Original Message----- marianne.macdonald@lineone.net wrote:
> Look, guys, in your heart of hearts you know perfectly well that: > -most violent killings are nasty, unmysterious and uninteresting, and > done by killers whose motive and identity is boringly obvious, largely > either because > ----they are closely related to the victims, > ----or it was a kind of accident related to another crime, > ----or they are in some way insane, > ----or several of the above.
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