Gerald So
John Wilder, developer of #TV's #SpenserForHire called #RobertBParker's #Spenser #Noir #Fiction. I think Wilder innocently confused noir w/ #Hardboiled. Noir is bleak, fatalist, about protagonists who try to get out from under only to sink deeper into their predicaments. Hardboiled is more open to stories of protagonists who make their way through harsh environments and manage to remain unscathed. As #RaymondChandler put it, "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean."
Very much inspired by #RaymondChandler's #PhilipMarlowe, #Spenser tries to live a moral life while working as a private investigator. He looks not only to save his clients from current trouble, but to turn their lives away from future trouble, and he usually manages to do it. This may not be realistic, but both hardboiled and noir are #Fiction after all. #RobertBParker
I've added more to this #Blog post than I thought I would, hopefully all the more apropos of fifty years of #Spenser. How's it read? https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2023/09/fifty-years-of-spenser.html
#RobertBParker #AceAtkins #MikeLupica #SpenserForHire #TV #Fiction #Mystery #Books
I've revised this #Blog post a few times trying to offer something in my 50-year Spenser retrospective that you won't get anywhere else: https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2023/09/fifty-years-of-spenser.html
#Spenser #RobertBParker #AceAtkins #MikeLupica #SpenserForHire #TV #Fiction #Mystery #Books #50thAnniversary