Mario,
Re your comment below:
> I have to disagree with Jim Doherty about
elegance
> and
> hardboiledness. Dudley Smith, one of the
most
> hardboiled
> characters in crime fiction, expresses himself in
a
> mild,
> fatherly brogue. His actions, though...
Mild and fatherly, yes, but never with an upper-crust
elegance. Smith isn't a lace-curtain Irishman, he's a shanty
mick and proud of it. His speech is the speech of a
colloquial Irish immigrant, not an upper-class pedant. He has
the common, colloquial touch that Gutman not only lacks, but
disdains.
JIM DOHERTY
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