Juri Nummelin:
> It would be interesting to read some of the
less-known PI
> writers of the fourties and fifties (Floyd Mahannah,
for
> example) and track down the first showings of
sympathy.
I can't recall any obvious MacDonald influences in the one
Mahannah novel I read, THE GOLDEN GOOSE, but one thing has
certainly stuck. The P.I. (whose name I have forgotten) falls
in love with his client - and she becomes pregnant. I'm not
sure if it's an example of those MacDonaldesque qualities
we're discussing, but it's such an unusual thing for an early
fifties P.I. novel that I thought it's worth mentioning
anyway. Great book, also.
And speaking of MacDonald influences, what about Howard
Browne's THE TASTE OF ASHES? His earlier books in the series
were Chandler influenced to the point of pastiche, but this
struck me somehow as more like MacDonald. And as early as
1956, too.
Anders
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