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14:19:06 -0000 From: "jacquesdebierue" <
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re:
Block's different series protags meeting
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Ed Lynskey
<e_lynskey@...> wrote:
> >
> > A few years ago, I heard Lawrence Block speak
on a panel of
> > crime fiction writers. He was asked if he ever
envisioned or
> > planned for his protagonists P.I. Matt Scudder
and gentleman
> > burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr to meet. He said
though both live in
> > NYC, they'd always move in parallel
universes.
> >
> > Hasn't this meeting of different series main
characters been
> > done in the past?
>
> Didn't Westlake get Dortmunder and friends into a
Parker novel?
Not that I know of. However, in Jimmy the Kid, Dortmunder uss
a fictional (as in not in existence outside of Jimmy the Kid)
Parker novel as the basis for a crime of his own.
Jordan
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