Juri Nummelin wrote in regards to my comment about PI
criticism pointing to a bad slump in the sixties and early
seventies:
Hasn't this been common criticism throughout the eighties and
still in the nineties? At least when I came in and started to
read the stuff (my first Chandler and Ross Macdonald being in
1985 or 1986), everyone was lamenting about the death of good
private eye writing.
************ It was Ruehlmann's Saint With A Gun that put the
question in my head. He discusses the big names like Hammett,
Chandler, and Ross Macdonald, and then proceeds to Brett
Halliday and Howard Browne (John Evans), and then he's into
Prather and Tidyman and I'm beginning to sense the downhill
slide myself without him saying a thing. And then it's
Pendleton
(Executioner series), Murphy (Destroyer), Messmam
(Revenger), Scarpetta (Marksman), and McCurtin and I admit I
haven't read much of this but it ain't sounding too good, and
I'm thinking that Ruehlmann
(who doesn't have much appreciation for even the classic
detective writers) must be ignoring the really substantial
detective writers in the 1960-1972 timeframe (Ruehlmann's
book has got a 1973 publishing date).
I'm going to read the authors that everyone was kind enough
to suggest. I want to get into this timeframe and see for
myself.
Thanks, miker
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