----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Lynskey" <
e_lynskey@yahoo.com>
> And I like that the loner cop takes a
> dog in. Pets in hardboiled lit, like the
torn
> up cat in George Pelecanos' novels.
An early example of dog-adopting occurs in W R Burnett's HIGH
SIERRA (1940). Armed robber Roy Earle proves that he's more
than just a psychopathic gun-toting, cop killer by taking in
Pard, the local stray, an act of kindess subsequently
rewarded when the mutt's presence helps him get through a
police barricade (numbskulls that they are, the police are
looking for a man and a woman - not a man and a woman and a
dog). Roy is apparently such a kind-hearted fellow that his
generosity extends to paying for an operation for a crippled
woman he only just met. It's all a bit lame, if you ask
me.
Al
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