Richard Moore wrote:
Hmmm...interesting. So was the two-dimensional detective hero
one of Ross Macdonald's major contributions to the form?
Intentionally two- dimensional, I mean. Obviously the pulps
and the $2 lending library novels often featured
two-dimensional detectives.
********* I should have read all these posts instead of
responding to them as I came to them. I wrote in an earlier
post that the shift from the detective to other characters
(resulting, at least in part, I think, in the two-dimensional
description) is Ross's contribution, and that whatever
questionable influence that has had on the genre, it's
nothing even close to that of Hammett and Chandler.
miker
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