Victoria wrote:
"And this powerful sense of deja vu leads to a question --
how often are books re-written by other authors? I am not
talking about plots in general as there are only so many, but
rather specific details. This is the first book that has
given me the feeling of having read it before with different
names and hair colors. And to be clear, I am NOT accusing
Grafton of plagiarism. I am only asking if others recognize
similarities which I have been too dense to have picked up
previously."
Both James Crumley's excellent The Last Kiss (my nomination
for best PI novel of his generation) and Timothy Harris's
also very good Goodnight and Goodbye (or do I have those
words reversed?) are variations on Chandler's Long Goodbye.
Of course, Dimitri Gat crossed the line from homage to
plagiarism of John D MacDonald in his two Nevsky books.
Mark
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