Brown's Requiem, his first novel, is very typical hardboiled. Ellroy has to some extent expanded the genre.
Patrick King
--- On Tue, 12/9/08, funkmasterj@runbox.com <funkmasterj@runbox.com> wrote:
> From: funkmasterj@runbox.com <funkmasterj@runbox.com>
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Ellroy's Black Dahlia
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 9:58 PM
> I just finished reading this, the first Ellroy book I've
> read. It was a good book, but not really to my tastes in
> terms of the relationships for the main character (why
> I'm not a Wambaugh fan). The lone wolf aspect is one of
> the things I like best about Hard Boiled fiction. I
> didn't notice the prose being unusual, I take it his
> "telepathic" style came later? Is any of his
> other writing more hard boiled?
>
> Jordan
>
> Recently read Simon Kernick's The Business of Dying
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