I think the thing about the PI, is that most of us grew up
loving them and their world, hardboiled though it was.
I think Rick Helms has hit on something. The PI has to
update. The difficulty is that 95 percent of modern PI work
has to do with checking the internet, credit reports,
spending habits and travel patterns without doing the leg
work.
Not much fun reading about a guy sitting at a computer. Less
fun writing about a guy (or gal) sitting at a computer. The
new PI will have to address the realities while maintainign
the hands on chop to chop and brain to brain battle of the
hero with the villain.
I just started to read Rick's new book "Cordite Wine." He
certainly puts his books where his mouth is. In the first
chapter or so, we learn that a guy is being blackmailed.
Instead of a lonely country road for a drop spot, the
blackmailer wants to be paid by Paypal.
I saw somebody's search for the new post-modern pulp right
here, using modern comic book type heros and antiheros a la
"Pulp Fiction."
Usually when the announcement is made that somelthing is
dead, it merely means its ready for a resurection of some
kind.
The announcement, sometimes in the 70s I think, that "God is
Dead" on the cover of Time Magazine, merely announced the
resurgence of church going.
The death of Russia as a rival, brought on another and in
some ways more sinister rival for the Western
Democracies.
This has been a great thread. I am only sorry that I have not
had the time to bring more to it.
Jack Bludis
http://www.jackbludis.com
Shamus nominee for "Shadow of the Dahlia" Amazon.com / BN.com
/ MysteryLovesCompany.com
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