Hope you will enjoy my last two posts. "Debunking Ian Rankin" http://ritznervonjung.blogspot.com/2005/12/debunking-ian-rankin.html "Noir: only for dummies" ...
Because of a glitch that has delayed production of the Sept/Oct 2005 print issue of FUTURES MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY MAGAZINE, the publisher is offering a free...
Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving (if you celebrate it where you live)! Just finished Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason novel. "The Case of the Terrified...
Actually, Ritzner, I don't think you can "debunk" a person, but a claim about that person. Never mind. Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, Reginald Hill and a few...
... noir ... good ... COMPLETE ... what ... detection . ... I can see Rankin's "noir sensibility" but that's more problematic when it comes to Robinson, Hill...
Xavier In American usage the French term "noir" when used in literature is characterized by a bleakness in tone, a finding of irredemably selfish, immoral (or...
... I know that, but "noir" originally refers to a very specific kind of fiction best exemplified by authors like Jim Thompson, David Goodis, James M. Cain,...
... Private lives of detective don't bother me per se. They only do when they are pedestrian or clichéd. I am one of the few with no problems with Lord...
I have only read a few short stories by Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson and Reginald Hill, and am really not qualified to give an opinion. But see an interesting...
... I am mainly of Xavier's opinion on these authors. Dexter was one of my favourites back when, and I highly enjoy Hill and Rankin, though I don't feel that...
... His article was included as an overview of British crime fiction in a special issue of French literary review "Magazine Littéraire" which was very...
... and Reginald Hill, and am really not qualified to give an opinion. ... out of a phonebooth." ... Chesterton, Carr, Christie and Queen come to mind, along...
Changing the subject for the moment, I would like to have some idea why the later Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe novels (the last 3, I believe) are considered...
... PLAYBACK, the seventh and final one, is unquestionably a weak novel, the last gasp of an important writer well past his prime. Chandler originally...
Try Hill's Recalled to Life or On Beulah Height. ... "a citizen of the Universe, and a gentleman to boot" ____________________________________________________ ...
... why the ... believe) are ... currently ... read any of ... falling ... First time ever I hear about such a claim - except for PLAYBACK which has a low...
I read the first four Chandler novels in a hardbound omnibus volume, the introduction for which stated the claim that these were the best novels he wrote and...
Where does POODLE SPRINGS fit into this picture, realizing that Chandler finished only the first four chapters? And what about the Philip Marlowe short...
Warren, It's interesting that you brought up the Perry Mason books. I've often heard the same thing about Gardner's works. The first 20 years of Mason were ...
... In THE LONG GOODBYE, Chandler introduced Linda Loring, the daughter of millionaire Harlan Potter and the sister of Sylvia Lennox. She and Marlowe have a...
No doubt the first years of Perry Mason produced more interesting stories, after which ESG settled down into his niche and stayed there. How much character...
Thanks, Barry! I wonder if Chandler was trying to write another Nick and Nora Charles story in POODLE SPRINGS, remembering the popularity of the film series...
My own reading of Gardner leads to a different impression of when his best novels were written. Many cluster into the years 1938-1942, a group in 1946, and...
I don't imagine that too many of you will recognize the name of Cornelia Penfield, but back in 1933, she wrote a couple of fairly decent detective novels, then...
... I doubt it--though at the end of the filmed version, James Caan as Marlowe says to Dina Meyer as Linda, "We can be Mr. and Mrs. Thin Man." In a letter...
... Having >also read all of the Dashiell Hammett novels recently, I guess I'm >ready for Mickey Spillane... Uh...before you go there, let me suggest you read...
Don't know if you all caught it or not, but one of my fav authors was on Book TV for three hours today: John Updike. During the course of the conversation it...
The reason I mentioned Mickey Spillane is that I prefer older mysteries, and after the Hammett and Chandler collections I have read, I also have Mickey ...
