- A good companion piece to my review of Andrew Klavan's Empire of Lies (http://bit.ly/ifvBI4)–From Marlowe to Mitch
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http://www.pulpfest.com/2011/03/12/the-first-hero-pulp/ # - From Marlowe to Mitch–Heroes on the Right parts 2 (http://bit.ly/eLcjzu) and 3 (http://bit.ly/i152Da). #
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Philip Marlowe is a right wing hero because he’s incorruptible and idealistc, yeah, if that isn’t a laugh and a half I don’t know what is.
Well, Chandler’s letters show a dislike of liberal policies. He even said Marlowe, “had the social consious of a horse.”
I’m not sure I buy Travis McGee as conservative or libertarian. It seems to me his politics couldn’t be pigeon holed anywhere.
I can buy McGee as a sort-of libertarian. And certainly there’s no question in the case of many of the thriller writers.
Missing from the list is Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir’s (and numerous ghost writers) Destroyer series. Other men’s adventure novels, too, but the Destroyer is the best of the lot by a country mile.
Though these lists are kind of dumb, they are fun. I’d like to see a similar left-wing list.
Yeah, Remo should be on there. If we are going to include libertarians then they probably should include Repairman Jack.
Liberal list:
George Smiley
V.I. Warshawski
Smiley was the only one I could think of. I can think of plenty of left-leaning crime/thriller novels, but not many series characters.
I haven’t read his books yet, but I know that Stig Larsson was a Communist. Do his novels reflect that? And there’s one series I can’t remember, one of which I read a long time ago, of police procedurals by a Scandinavian couple that were definitely left-leaning although also somewhat critical of their own side (a la many Destroyer novels). Someone will read this and know what I’m talking about.
I may throw this out to Rara-Avis. I’d get a ton of great responses.
I haven’t read Larsson but from what I’ve heard his do. Dashiell Hammett’s characters could possibly count, though he did not really deal with politics in his writing.