Carrie Pruett wrote:
> >>and don't get me started on Toto
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>
> >Toto is a dog. Dogs are not stand-up guys, hence
not hardboiled. <snip>
>
> except for Fireball roberts, of course; he was a
standup bulldog who could
> hold his liquor. and what about Keller's dog in "Hit
Man"? <snip>
Not to mention Dougal's Laird Carstairs in Norbert Davis'
hilarious (and hardboiled) Carstairs & Doan series.
Notice that Carstairs name always comes first when mentioning
these books. He wouldn't have it any other way. Doan won
Carstairs in a crap game. Carstairs has never really forgiven
him for that. As for the beast himself, "Carstairs was a
fawn-colored Great Dane. Standing in four legs, his back came
up to Doan's chest. He never did tricks. He considered them
beneath him. But had he ever done one that involved standing
on his hind feet, his head would have hit a level far above
Doan's/ Carstairs was so big he could hardly be called a dog.
He was a sort of new species."
BobT
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