Richard Stark's Parker and Garry Disher's Wyatt are a case of literary tribute and possibly symbiosis like none other that I know. Parker, created in 1962, is a prototypical professional, an unsentimental planner of elaborate capers who kills only when necessary but does not hesitate to kill when he must. So is Wyatt, created thirty years later.
Each is identified only by his last name. Each is harassed by the mob, which is called, in both cases,…
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Posted on March 19, 2007 at 6:56pm — 5 Comments
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Hi PR,
I am aware of Detectives Beyond Borders. I'm the Eastern Hemisphere editor of Noir Nation: an international journal of crime fiction. First issue due out as an eBook Spetember 1. Would you be willing to review it? It is still a bit US/Canada heavy; I've been trying to grow our European network and it's much slower-going than in the English speaking countries.
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Thanks for the kind wished, and the same to you and to anyone else who reads this!
BTW, I sent you a message. Did you get it?
Oh, and if any of those stories were mine, well, thanks!
I read some of the short-shorts you posted on your blog a while back, by the way. Man, some of that stuff is damned good.