Harry wrote:
> I also came across SONS OF SAM SPADE: THE PRIVATE
EYE NOVEL IN THE 70s
> by David Geherin. Anyone familiar with this
study?
Interesting, but outdated. Of the three authors Geherin
focused on -- Robert B. Parker, Roger L. Simon, Andrew
Bergman -- only Parker's continued to thrive and played a
major role in the genre, although both Simon ad Bergman
continue to kick into the pot now and then, and have done
some excellent and noteworthy work.
This might have been one of the first times anyone took a
deeper, more serious look at Parker's work, and its impact on
the genre. It would be interesting to see Geherin do an
update, considering all that's happened to the P.I. genre,
post-Spenser.
And let's face it, there may be better or more popular
authors out there, but nobody has influenced the P.I. genre
-- for better or worse
-- more in the last few decades -- for better or worse --
than Parker.
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