MrT:
> She can be truculent... but those plots are wicked.
And the
characters, pretty nasty. And
> the outlook, pessimistic. Sometimes I think she was
a closet noirist.
Isn't it necessary for a crime or a mystery novel to have
nasty characters? I don't think that makes Christie any more
noirist than any other British Golden Age crime writer. If
someone should be labeled noirist from that era, it would be
Francis Iles.
Juri
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