Miker,
Re your question below:
> Can you think of any [Poe stories] that have
a
> Southern "air" to them?
"The Gold Bug" is definitely set in the South. I'm not sure
how "gothic" you'd consider it but it's definitely Southern.
The story involves code-breaking rather than the actual
solving of a crime. It's been years since I read it, but one
of Pe's non-Dupin detective stories, "Thou Art the Man," has
a small town/rural setting that may have been southern. The
trick by which the detective solves the murder has some
definite gothic elements.
Just to keep this focused on hard-boiled fiction, it's worth
noting that the sleuth in "Thou Art the Man," like the
Continental Op and Bill Pronzini's private eye character, is
a nameless first person narrator.
JIM DOHERTY
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