Re: RARA-AVIS: stephen greenleaf

From: Doug Bassett ( dj_bassett@yahoo.com)
Date: 17 Feb 2006


I don't know if he's the "greatest...of them all" but he's usually my pick for the most underrated writer of his era. In a just world, he'd have had the career Robert Parker had (and vice versa).

I also like Arthur Lyons a lot too, although Lyons wrote his fair share of duff books, and I've never met a Greenleaf I didn't like.

doug

--- hundsohn < hundsohn@yahoo.com> wrote:

> greenleaf is the greatest hardboiled author of them
> all
> he has accomplished the task that failed chandler,
> hammett, spillane or others
> he has made a real series that is a polished
> artefact of its own
>
> and he has shown the realities an author must work
> nowadays
> under (similar to a p.i. or a lawyer )
>
> and he has lead in "ellipsis" marsh to the end of
> the fairy tale -
> so the author and the reader have to be silent !
>
>
>
>
>
>

Doug Bassett dj_bassett@yahoo.com

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