Are there any good hard boiled parodies? That is something
intentionally writen as parody, not just by a bad writer or
one who just pulls out all the stops as Mel Brooks would in a
movie. Is there a book that is subtle?. I know about my
namesake, John Blumenthal don't consider him good and I don't
think most of the list consider Janet Evanovich hard boiled
though in the the first two books, the only ones I have read,
I thought she did a pretty good job. I don't think an author
could sustain a long series without the books either becoming
too broad or repeating themselves. Mark
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