tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18602000.post115538987297342850..comments2023-11-05T08:08:48.848-05:00Comments on The Bunburyist: Elizabeth Foxwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10151714538393844565noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18602000.post-1155485954097834232006-08-13T12:19:00.000-04:002006-08-13T12:19:00.000-04:00Undeservedly disparaged for creating the "Had-I-Bu...<I>Undeservedly disparaged for creating the "Had-I-But-Known" approach to mystery writing</I><BR/><BR/>Undeservedly indeed, as very few of her books belong to that otherwise quite respectable (when well-done) genre. "The Man in Lower Ten" or "The Window at the White Cat" are fine proto-thrillers, the latter forecasting hardboiled fiction with its gangsters, corruptions and mazelike plots.<BR/>I think MRR's greatest and sadly never fully recognized achievement is to have brought American crime fiction a distinctive voice at a time when most of of her fellow-compatriots parrotted the British school.Xavierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05702919450638993709noreply@blogger.com