>Will we be longing for the good old days of Robert
Parker?
Some of us long for those days already. More seriously, it
looks like crime fiction is moving away from private eyes,
who dominated the 80s and on into the 90s, and back towards
stories about criminals and other assorted lowlifes. It seems
to me that mystery reades' tastes tend to go back and forth
from ourtight hero worship (the 40s and the cult of Marlowe)
to fiction that deglamorizes crime and criminals (the 50s and
paperback originals - leaving aside Mike Hammer, of
course).
Just my opinion, but recent crime fiction also seems a little
less pretentious than what's been common over the past
decade. Of course, many of the writers I admire have been
writing for a decade or more, but now a simpler style seems
to be gaining in popularity.
Graham
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