--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Frederick Zackel" <fzackel@...> wrote:
> Hammett, Chandler & Macdonald took the hard-boiled California pee eye in new directions. Each one used the formula, the conventions of the genre , and took off in a different direction. Each one did it differently, and each one did it courage and conviction.
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> Should we make it a quartet?
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> Fine. Who else has taken the genre in new directions?
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It depends on what "the genre" is taken to be. If it's the PI novel, nobody has taken it in new directions, though many people have done great work in the old directions (Crumley, Lyons and Greenleaf, for example). If it's hardboiled literature, there are plenty of authors to add, people like Donald Westlake, Chester Himes, Elmore Leonard and Newton Thornburg, to name just a few greats who don't have much to do with the triumvirate. From the Gold Medal days alone, one could name a dozen original hardboiled writers.
mrt
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