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Tough Guys |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Curt Schleier |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,821 Words, 15,813 Characters |
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EYES OF PREY
John Sandford
New York: Putnam, 1991
318 pp., $19.95
THE EMPRESS FILE
John Camp
New York: Henry Holt, 1991
231 pp., $18.95
Woody Allen, arguably America's most innovative filmmaker, told his biographer that he would "love more than anything else in the world to do a murder mystery. That would be my gift to myself."
He refuses to, however even though he has several good ideas for such movies; he feels the subject is too trivial. He says:
I make value judgments. I don't say what I do is so superior. I try to do superior work. I'm not saying that I don't strike out, but my attempt to begin with is much higher than that.
I'm going to insult all the mystery writers in the world, but to me a mystery story is still a second-class kin...
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...er it from one book to the next. You recall it, too, when Davenport uses the same technique before he breaks into a house. In Davenport and Kidd, Camp has created two exceptional characters who can help assure him a place in the Mystery Hall of Fame. But he has to continue to be innovative, not getting caught in the trap of habit and repetition. It's what separates the good guys from the bad.
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