--- Robison Michael R CNIN <
Robison_M@crane.navy.mil> wrote:
> Jim Doherty wrote:
> What strikes me as particularly remarkable is that
the
> Cold War seems much more prevalent in '50s HB than
WW2
> was in '40s crime fiction.
>
> *********
> I have barely scratched the surface of the genre in
the
> 40s and 50s, but I was surprised how little WWII
figured
> into the 40s books I read. Although casual
reference
> in background material is inevitable, the war
seemed
> almost not to have happened.
>
In the 1950s books I've read, there are passing references
made to "the war." Miker has already mentioned Ross
Macdonald's THE DARK TUNNEL. In the early Lew Archer novels,
RM presents dispirited, angry characters who've been shaped
by their WW2 experiences. John D. Macdonald does likewise.
Matt Helms had some capers against Nazi/Russian Communist
elements. Did the 1950s readers just want to put WW2 behind
them, and authors didn't dwell on war events?
Ed Lynskey
=====
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