Richard Moore wrote: On the other hand, I do believe a novel
can be both hardboiled and funny.
Just today I began reading a very funny novel I learned about
through Keith Roberts' memoir (of sorts) LEMADY. The book is
DON'T POINT THAT THING AT ME by Kyril Bonfiglioli and it
manages to be both tough and very, very funny.
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Let me suggest (and recommend) another: City of Tiny Lights
by Patrick Neate. Some of the dialogue and narrator
observations are hilarious. But the plot -- involving
politics, racism, crime and international terrorism paranoia
-- is properly dark.
Dick Lochte
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