William Denton wrote:
> On 15 December 2000, James Rogers wrote:
>
> : However the girl does appear in two of the
completed novels so it
> : seems fair to include the relationship.
>
> On a related note, in the Fleming/Chandler
discussion, Chandler says he's
> got his hero in a bit of a pickle because he's going
to get married.
> Fleming asks if that means he's going to have to
kill off the wife (which
> Fleming had already done by then to his hero's
wife). Chandler said no,
> no, he couldn't do that. If he'd kept on writing,
Linda (is it
> Linda?) would have been an important, continuing
character.
If.
The point is, though, that Parker did what none of the
Chandler wanna-bes did and what Chandler himself didn't do;
he went ahead and gave Parker an ongoing relationship, one
that wasn't destined to end in one book and which was as real
as Parker could make it, involving a non-stereotyped
(initially) female character. There may have been precursors
to Spenser, but it's Spenser himself that the Parker
wanna-bes are copying. It's Parker, not the precursors, who's
been influential on the field.
jess
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