Mark Sullivan said{
>>However, I would say that the streets
down
which Marlowe and Spade (and the Continental Op) walk are
pretty noir, even if the hero tries
(with varying degrees of sucess) to stay out of the gutter.
Perhaps they are called in by clients whose worlds are going
dark?<<
Was there ever a more screwed character than Moose Malloy?
Although he wasn't the lead, he was the instigator of
*Fairwell My Lovely*
And Miker said about me saying that his defintion of noir was
ten words too long --
>>That's the author in you showing through,
Jack.
After reading Gruber's THE PULP JUNGLE, I realize that
authors have a fetish about word count.<<
LOL and Touchee.
Jack
===== http://JackBludis.com
Hollywood Mysteries of the Early Fifties
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