Being a Canadian in Canada, you certainly have a better view
about what happens there for HB/Noir fiction. I however would
like to add that there were Canadian writers in that field,
but most of them were English-speaking "wetbacks" being
published in the USA. Some of them finally took the American
citizenship. With very few exceptions they rarely used Canada
as background for their novels, preferring probably to be
confused as American writers...(?)
Ross Mc Donald, already cited, is one case. Problem is that
when I came across the cases, I never thought to make a list
of it. Some I remember:
*Martin Brett- a few of his novels took place in Canada
*John Craig (close to the genre for one novel:If you want to
see your wife again)
*Margaret Millar- wife of the other one- for a part of her
production
*Ted Wood- series during the 80's- surely of HB inspiration
from what I know (but I did not read it, as reputation is
low).
Now, for the French speaking part of Canada, there is at
least one that I know, a contemporary writer: Franį¯Šs Barcelo.
His novels belong to several genres, but most of the time
with something close to black humor. Up to now, 4 of his
novels belong to the HB/Noir sphere (but lending more to
Noir), and he's rather very good at it. And his plots have
all Canada as background.
I'm not sure this will help.
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
--- William Denton <
buff@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> There are a number of good Canadian mystery
writers,
> but I don't think any
> of them really write in a hardboiled style.
The
> closest you'll get is
> politely softboiled, or resignedly hard-working in
a
> sort of Presbyterian
> way. Hugh Garner's Inspector McDumont
police
> procedurals come close.
> I'm leaving out Ross Macdonald, and any pulp
writers
> who wrote for
> American pulps (because I can't think of
any)
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