Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Best noir novel (was Red Right Hand)

From: Don Lee (donthepoet@yahoo.com)
Date: 03 Mar 2009

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    Yes, my jaw hit the floor at the end of SONGS OF INNOCENCE. He nailed it.

    --- On Tue, 3/3/09, Mark D. Nevins <nevins_mark@yahoo.com> wrote:

    > For modern candidates, I'd put forward Aleas's
    > SONGS OF INNOCENCE. I liked the two Blake books a lot, even
    > though I think each had flaws--some inconsistencies, I
    > thought, in character, and a bit of flabbiness in each case
    > that, rather than being a major flaw in and of itself,
    > served to remind me of how hard it must be to pull off what
    > Cain and Hammett seem to do so effortlessly. I guess SONGS
    > OF INNOCENCE is not a classic noir, but it has an ending for
    > the ages.
    >
    > Mark Nevins

          



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