Mario,
Re your comments below:
> There are counterexamples to everything:
Easy
> Rawlins is an
> amateur. Mouse may be said to be a professional,
but
> he's
> crazy. Does he count? Who else is a pro in
the
> Rawlins
> series? Mofass?
>
> And how about Socrates Fortlow? He's not
a
> professional at
> anything, except he was a jailbird for a long
time.
>
> Both series are very hardboiled, with amateurs
as
> protagonists.
As I've mentioned in other posts, I was remarking on a
general tendency, not a hard and fast rule. Just as there are
amateurs in hard-boiled, on both sides of the law, there are
professionals, on boths sides, in the "cozy."
That said, in his first appearance, Easy Rawlins describes
himself as a private detective, who looks back on the case
described in DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS as his
apprenticeship.
Granting that he doesn't have a license, I would argue that
it's not a license that makes him a professional, but the
fact that he accepts pay for carrying out
investigations.
JIM DOHERTY
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