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   From: dmatthews03@sympatico.ca   
      
   "Tom"  wrote in message   
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   > On Dec 16, 11:49 pm, "David Matthews"    
   > wrote:   
   >> > I wonder if HGWT was Robert B. Parker's inspiration for Spenser, his   
   >> > tough, poetry quoting, gourmet P.I.?   
   >>   
   >> No it wasn't.  Parker made no secret of the fact that the inspiration for   
   >> Spenser was Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, another very literate   
   >> PI -in   
   >> the books if not in the movies -  As a matter of fact Spenser's first   
   >> novel   
   >> _The Godwulf Manuscript_ was practically a re-write of Chandler's _ The   
   >> Big   
   >> Sleep _ Parker first wrote it as an University exercise I believe.   
   >>   
   >> Dave in Toronto   
   >   
   >   
   > I agree Parker is a fan of Chnadler, but he had to at least be   
   > influenced by HGWT.   
   >   
   > There are too many similaities for it to be sheer coincidence.   
   >   
   > Tom   
      
      
      
   You're probably right.  I was never a big fan of Spenser or Parker so I   
   haven't been following them too closer.   
      
   Parker obviously was a Western fan, when Spenser's popularity started to   
   fade Parker tried his hand at writing a few Westerns.  I haven't read them,   
   someone told me that if I didn't care for Spenser too much I probably   
   wouldn't like them for they were just basically just  Spenser out West.  For   
   the record I was always very fond of HGWT - one of my favorite series.   
      
   Dave in Toronto   
      
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