----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Guthrie" <
allanguthrie@ukonline.co.uk>
> From: "Joy Matkowski" <
jmatkowski1@comcast.net>
> > A lot of this Britnoir seems to take place
north of the border. Is
> this
> > a new Scottish Renaissance?
>
> Looks that way. It began with Rankin's "Knots and
Crosses", which took as
> its inspiration, fellow Scot Robert Louis
Stevenson's proto-noir "Strange
> Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Renaissance is a
good word.
Whoops. Apologies to William McIlvanney. Of course he
preceded Rankin. And to Iain Banks for "The Wasp Factory."
And James Kelman. In fact my previous post ought to be
expunged from the records.
Al
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