![]() ![]() He’s channelling his inner Raymond Chandler with observations like : The writing is excellent: Morse goes for the comedy, with wry observations and epigrams packed into every page. Re-reading The Old Dick, it’s easy to understand why it was such a hit. Though Morse worked as an administrator at the University of Toronto, he was actually an American from Los Angeles with two degrees in English literature from the University of California. Morse was much admired by the membership and perhaps more than a little envied because of his smashing success with The Old Dick. In the early days of Crime Writers of Canada, L. The Old Dick was Morse’s first crime novel and he won an Edgar Award for it. Morse introduced Jake Spanner, his 78 year old PI. Then more than half a century later, author L.A. Miss Marple made her first appearance in a short story published in 1927. First of all, there’s the intrepid Miss Marple, inspired by an elderly friend of Dame Agatha Christie’s step grandmother. True enough, modern protagonists of crime fiction, especially cozies, have become slightly older, but they’re not really old. But the sub-genre hasn’t really caught on even though crime fiction readers are an older demographic. ![]() In recent years, especially in noir crime fiction, authors and editors have pushed to create “geezer lit”. ![]()
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