I really like this author and place Crumley very high in my
personal pantheon. But... The dog thing in the Last good Kiss
comes from a similar idea from Johnattan Latimer (Another of
the faded out American great authors... !) I'm rather busy
and cannot search for the exact reference, but I'm pretty
sure of this.
Williams, Latimer... we could add quite a bunch of names to a
list of forgotten(in America, and for no good reasons...)
prime HB/Noir American authors.
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--- Mark Sullivan <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
>Do you really think Crumley is working
> "against the grain,"
> though? I see him as another step along the
way,
> but firmly rooted in
> the tradition. For instance, I've always thought
of
> The Last Good Kiss
> as an expanded and permutated version of the
center
> portion of The Long
> Goodbye, Marlowe's search for Roger Wade. I
can't
> see Chandler ever
> coming up with a character like Fireball
Roberts,
> though.
>
> Mark
>
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