Wild Bill Crider wrote:
>And speaking of Chandler pastiches, does anybody
remember a
>writer named Robert Martin? I thought some of his
early
>books were about as good as the ones by Browne/Evans,
though
>later on the books went way downhill.
Ah! Robert Martin! I really enjoyed the ones I've managed to
find over the years. His ClevelandP.I., JIM BENNETT, was a
rarity in detective fiction in the fifties in that he was a
happily-married man. Thomas Dewey, Bart Spicer and James M.
Fox are about the only other writers of this period that
seemed to stray from the whole lone wolf/PI thing. His
long-suffering wife was Sandy, was his former
secretary.
>>>There's a prefatory apology by Browne in the
reprint
(for being derogatory about lesbians).
Is there? Well, that seems pretty classy. Better to leave the
text and apologize in an intro, than to change it, and
pretend it was never said. I must say, though it's been years
since I read it, that what really bothered me wasn't the
derogation so much as the fact that some of the assumptions
about lesbians were (and are) factually, boneheadedly wrong
(but probably more or less accepted as general common wisdon
at the time).
And Dick wrote:
>Anybody wanting to see Paul Newman really portray Lew
Archer should rent a
>copy of "Twilight." It's not the actual character,
but close enough.
Yes. You, Bill, me -- it seems a lot of people actually liked
Twilight, after all. And add Lorten Estleman to that list. In
the same conversation Bill Denton mentioned, he admitted he
quite enjoyed Twilight as well.
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