I can think of a vampire PI, several, in fact, but have not yet run across a werewolf one -- are you exaggerating for effect, Fed, or is there really a vampire PI? Not sure I really want to know.
Mark
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> From: fzackel@wcnet.org
> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:34:19 -0400
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: More Likable P.I.s?
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> Kevin said, "Even that most affable of gumshoes,
> Rockford, would probably be quite wearying in real life."
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> If he weren't so affable, he'd be downright grumpy, and few TV personas are THAT grumpy already. Jim Garner makes him affable, but Rockford is grumpy.
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> Kevin also said, "So, at heart, must the private eye remain a loner?"
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> I've said it before and I'll say it again: Nowadays the lone wolf looks too much like "that quiet guy who lived down the lane" who turns out to be the psychopath killer. That scares people. I believe that's why the successful PI character (in terms of the publishing biz) nowadays is ... a woman. (And maybe a vampire. Or werewolf. Which, in our favorite genre, is downright weird! and I have no explanation of.)
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> Shit. I need coffee, too.
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