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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Burton Smith
<kvnsmith@...> wrote:
>
> Dave wrote:
>
> > Well, Fast Lane's not a PI book - it's fits
really under psychotic
> > noir. The only PI work I ever wrote (until
recently) was a short
story
> > done more as a joke.
>
> GULP! Would that be the story you wrote for us? And
here we took you
> seriously...
>
Well, Kevin, the effort was a serious one, but the concept of
Johnny Lane in a traditional PI story -- albeit an
excessively seedy and amoral one -- was kind of a joke, more
to make readers who might later pick up Fast Lane all the
more shocked. If you read Fast Lane you'll understand the
punchline.
I do agree with your overall assessment of the PI genre. More
and more of these books are being labeled as "thrillers" but
they're still at their heart PI novels, regardless of the
PI's actual profession.
Dave Zeltserman
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