In a message dated 7/22/03 1:41:21 PM,
Robison_M@crane.navy.mil writes:
<< Name the last few detective novels you've read.
>>
Doc Ford who isn't a PI, but who behaves like one. He has
more friends than Travis McGee and though he lives alone he
doesn't have trouble forming strong, balanced relationships
with women. Derek Strange out of G.P. Gideon Lowry, John
Leslie's semi happy man. John Lutz's Ray Carver, and also,
his bemused Alo Nudger, Robert Crais's laconic Elvis Cole,
Max Allan Collins's Nate Heller, Jeremiah Healy's John Cuddy
(when he isn't moping), Bob Randisi's Nick Delvecchio, Bill
Pronzini's "Nameless" (especially in the later stories) Sue
Grafton's Kinsey Milhone, William Campbell Gault's Joe Puma,
Sara Paretsky's V.I.W. etc.
and talk
about "cheating," you don't get to eliminate Shell Scott just
because he fails to fall into the loser list.
These people don't live (fictional)
lives derived from the Donna Reed show, but they don't appear
to be any more loserlike than the average Joe.
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