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kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com> wrote:
> Hmmmm... I have no idea, though I guess a case
could
> be made. After
> all, sometimes in a burst of flagwaving silliness,
I
> think of
> Margaret Millar and Ross Macdonald as
Canadian
> writers.
I recall reading somewhere the theory that Chandler had
picked up his "mean streets" line from a British writer while
in London. I *think* the writer may have been Chesterson, but
I certainly could be wrong about that.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
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