RARA-AVIS: 100 Best Characters Vote

From: Anthony Dauer ( anthony.dauer@verizon.net)
Date: 01 Apr 2002

My Vote

The 100 Best Characters in Hard Boiled Written Fiction Since 1900 - the voting
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 1 212. Philip Marlowe (series, Raymond Chandler)
 2 234. Sam Spade (THE MALTESE FALCON, Dashiell Hammett)
 3 252. The Continental Op (series, Dashiell Hammett)
 4 152. Lew Archer (series, Ross Macdonald)
 5 183. Milo Milodragovitch (series, James Crumley)
 6 67. Dimitri Karras (series, George Pelecanos)
 7 135. Joe LaBrava (LABRAVA, Elmore Leonard)
 8 261. Travis McGee (series, John D. MacDonald)
 9 34. Buzz Meeks (BIG NOWHERE, James Ellroy) 10 165. Marcus Clay (series, George Pelecanos) 11 170. Matt Helm (series, Donald Hamilton) 12 171. Matthew Scudder (series, Lawrence Block) 13 176. Maximum Bob Gibbs (MAXIMUM BOB, Elmore Leonard) 14 157. Lou Ford (KILLER INSIDE ME and WILD TOWN, Jim Thompson) 15 202. Nick Stefanos (series, George Pelecanos) 16 133. Joe Friday (Dragnet series, various authors) 17 223. Raymond Cruz (CITY PRIMIEVAL: HIGH NOON IN DETROIT, Elmore Leonard) 18 80. Edmund Exley (L.A. QUARTET series, James Ellroy) 19 32. Burke (series, Andrew Vachss) 20 28. Brigid O'Shaughnessy (THE MALTESE FALCON, Dashiell Hammett)
  

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