Re my recent post:
> And a surprisingly large number of
non-American
> writers who wrote PI stories, such as . . .
Peter
> Cheney . . . used
> American characters and settings precisely
because
> the
> PI story was so closely identified with the
US.
Actually, now that I think about it (thanks to Karin's recent
post), Slim Callaghan, Cheney's most frequently used PI
character, was English. And, while Cheney created a host of
other PI characters, I'm not sure ANY of them was American.
His most famous character, Lemmy Caution, was a Yank, but
Lemmy was a cop, not a PI.
However, while Cheney might not be an example, the point
still stands. One could even make the case that Chandler, who
made the "American-ness" of the hard-boiled PI one of the
immutable points in the
"Marlowe Pardigm," was actually a Brit since he was raised
and educated in Blighty and served the King, rather than the
Stars and Stripes, in the Great War.
JIM DOHERTY
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