I'm not familiar with the ex-cons or with Hallahan, Winslow,
Salisbury, or Coltrane, but I know the names of the rest. Not
that many are the kinds of books discussed here. Joy
Gonzalo Baeza asked:
> This is an interesting Time article from 1978 on new
trends and names
> in mystery fiction. It's funny how parts of it read
like they were
> written in 2007, especially the arguments about the
critics' disdain
> for crime fiction (not that they were new in 1978,
anyway).
>
> I found the list of books and writers to watch
pretty interesting and I
> wonder how it's held up in time. What does everyone
think? Myself, I'd
> never heard of at least half the books on
it.
>
>
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916097,00.html
>
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