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rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002
8:47 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Boucher
> Bob Toomey writes: "Boucher's fiction is far from
hardboiled, but he was
> a great friend of
> hardboiled and one of the first important reviewers
to pay attention to
> tough paperback originals."
>
> Absolutely. Boucher was reviewing John D. MacDonald,
Charles Williams,
> Jim Thompson, Gil Brewer, Peter Rabe (not to mention
lesser lights like
> Al Fray, Jack Ehrlich, and many others) before they
were even a blip on
> the radar of any other reviewer.
>
> Bill Crider
And occasionally, as in the story "They Bite", he comes
pretty darned close to hardboiled.
James
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