Mario,
Re your comment below:
> He [Joe Gores] is the contemporary Hammett.
The
> same
> detached and nonchalant tone, a similar sense
of
> humor, the
> same skill in condensing the action.
His stylistic similairty to Hammett is particularly
interesting in light of the striking parallels to their
lives.
Consider this condensed bio:
A young man arrives in San Francisco seeking fame and
fortune, and promptly gets a job with a large PI agency. Some
years after leaving the work, he starts selling a series of
short stories, based on his experiences as a private
detective, to the leading crime fiction magazine of the day.
Later he extends the series into three novels. He goes on to
write a crisp, novel about a slightly shady PI (who may not
be as crooked as everyone thinks he is) in an extremly terse,
extremely objective third person style, that is widely
regarded as one of the best PI novels ever published. After a
few more novels he has a faIrly lucrative career as a
script-writer in the film and broadcast mediums.
Of course that's a description of Hammett, but it applies
equally well (at least it did until the publication of 32
CADILLACS brought the number of DKA novels to four instead of
three) to Gores. No wonder Gores felt compelled to write
HAMMETT.
JIM DOHERTY
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