RARA-AVIS: Salon essay: The case of the overrated mystery novel

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Ben Yagoda has a good little essay in Salon magazine today about the state of mysteries, and he talks about current hardboiled writers. "Robert Parker, Dennis Lehane, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly -- I've read them all. Amid the logrolling and endless hype, one thing gets obscured: Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald did it first, and did it a lot better."

         http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/01/06/mystery_hype/

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Bill

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