At 08:14 PM 14/10/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>Litmus test: Is Simenon a cozy or hardboiled
writer?
I'm more inclined to think of Simenon as a writer of
psychological mysteries than either cosy or hardboiled. Nor
do I think he's noir, though there are certainly noirish
elements to Maigret's point-of-view. I'm not sure Simenon
could be said to write in the vernacular, but then I've only
read English translations.
My point is, however, that there are more than 2 categories
of crime writing, and they frequently overlap just to
complicate things further. I can't speak to Lorac, except to
say that by your description she may not be cosy, but that
does not necessarily make her hardboiled. And nationality has
less to do with it now than it did, say, mid twentieth
century or earlier.
Best Kerry
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