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B4 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Saturday, June 13, 1992 Peeking into the Private Eye's World ft' The actors who portrayed the detectives are: 1. Chester Morris, 2. Walter Pidgeon, 3. William Powell, 4. Preston Foster, 5.

Boris Karloff, 6. Craig Stevens, 7. Paul Newman, 8. Dean Martin, 9. Margaret Rutherford, 10.

Peter Lorre and Henry Silva, 11. Tony Randall and Albert Finney, 12. Humphrey Bogart, 13. Robert Montgomery, 14. Boris Karloff The creators of the famous sleuths are: A.

Michael Arlen, B. Earl Derr Biggers, C. Jack Boyle, D. Raymond Chandler, E. Leslie Charteris, F.

Agatha Christie, G. Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, H. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I. Agatha Christie, J. Erie Stanley Gardner, K.

Dashiell Hammett, L. Herman Cyril McNeile, M. John P. Mar-quand, N. Dashiell Hammett, 0.

Rex Stout, P. Maxwell Grant. 7 1 timelessly grounded in the ambience of '40s murk and ceiling-fan hoir. Archer is named for the slain 'partner of Hammett's Spade in "Maltese Falcon," but he is really Chandler's Marlowe refined, and brought to his psychological acme. Macdonald's dense, richly written studies in the Chandler mold bring the 20th century phenomenon to its greatest heights so far.

"In our day it is for such a novel as 'The Underground Man' that the detective form exists," wrote an unlikely fan, Eudora Welty, her famous 1971 review of that Macdonald work. "I think it also matters that it is the detective form, with all its difficult demands and its corresponding charms, that makes such a novel possible. What gives me special satisfaction about it is that no one but a good writer this good writer could possibly have brought it off." (Welty and the pseudonymous Macdonald became famous friends, and she dedicated her collection of essays, "The Eye of the Storm," to him via his real name, Kenneth Millar.) Among other practitioners, Rex Stout stands out for shrewdly combining the muscular, masculine hard-boiler, Archie Goodwin, with his British-styled, highly eccentric, highly well-to-do boss, Nero Wolfe, the two genres meeting in a funny, productive marriage. Probably the best living examples today come from James Ellroy, whose surrealistic voyages into ultra-violence Big Nowhere" and "L.A. tie him into a kind of separate, much artier tradition, the short stories, Hammett invented the modern literary private eye, a professional earning a living, and a modest one at that hardly to the manor born.

He is not "an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner; he wants to be a and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent bystander or client," Hammett said himself. One of Hammett's most successful followers, Raymond Chandler, put it this way: Hammett took murder out of the Venetian vase and returned it to the alley. He also gave Chandler and others their role model. What Hammett invented (and in some eerie ways imitated in his own life, what with his later imprisonment thanks to a typically hard-boiled, rebellious, outsider's war with congressional committees), Chandler refined with zeal and grace. Of all' the detective heroes, Chandler's Philip Marlowe serves as the most familiar cinematic model, the hero of both versions of "The Big Sleep" (Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum), of "Murder, My Sweet" (Dick Powell), "Farewell, My Lovely" (Mitchum again), "Marlowe" (James Garner) and even Robert Altaian's 70s rethink, "The Long Goodbye" (Elliot Gould).

He haunts innumerable other works, with his background as a former district attorney's investigator (the great American gumshoe Humphrey Bogart, as tough-guy Sam Spade, leans on Sidney Greenstreet while Peter Lorre looks on in "The Maltese Falcon." CONTINUED FROM PAGE B1 American, an unpredictable troublemaker bucking the system and drawn to danger. (It's no surprise the two finally meet head-on in the detective-cartoon film homage, "Who Framed Roger The detective's literary history is easy to trace. Historians say he has his roots in the 19th century in three stories by Edgar Allen Poe: "The Mystery of Marie Roget," "The Purloined Letter" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Ironically, Poe's hero, C. Auguste Dupin, quizzical, odd, brainy and an amateur, launched a tradition of detective lore not in this country but in Britain: Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Edward Campion. Theirs is a highly monied, pristinely aristocratic chain of being that is severed abruptly and only temporarily by the messy chaos of murder.

Once solved, life returns to unlimited leisure and impeccable good manners, which sometimes don't disappear even while the killing is under way. Enter Mr. Hammett And then there was Hammett. At first imitating the British model with his Park Avenue darlings, Nick and Nora, Hammett went on to create the hard-boiled detective as we know and love him. First with the Continental Op, who debuted in Black Mask Magazine in 1923, and then with Sam Spade, hero of "The Maltese Falcon" and a handful of one launched by James M.

Cain Postman Always Rings and Sue Grafton and Robert Parker, current masters of the cherished Chandler tradition. What keeps the detective hot in films, pop fiction and television (where endless crime shows carry the torch) is his double-edged, wildly free-form lifestyle linked to the tidy order of crime solution and comparatively neat endings. The detective, not the girl, always gets his man. In a century of smoke-filled ambiguity, of shadowy figures threatening danger from beneath the lamp post, of corrupt police and idolized criminals, those semi-happy endings bring with them a bit of security, a little discipline and finality in a society out of control. Frank Magill's four-volume "Critical Survey-of Mystery and Detective Fiction," a reference now available at most libraries, sums it up this way: "Cops don't go crooked for money.

Not always, not even often," Lieutenant Galbraith of the Bay City police says in "Farewell, My Lovely." "A guy can't stay honest if he wants He gets chiseled out of his pants if he does. You gotta play the game dirty or you don't eat. I think we gotta make this world all over again." To which Marlowe signs off: "If (that's) how it works, I'll take aspirin." is routinely an ex-cop, soured on the system and in love with independence); his middle-aged self-satisfaction and resolve (he's 42); his standoffish, chivalrous chastity (he flirts with seduction a great deal more than he accomplishes it); and his knightly honor one Chandler novel, "The Lady in the Lake," is actually named for Arthurian legend. Of their descendents, the king is Macdonald, whose 18 Lew Archer novels span the years 1949-1977, but in feeling and mood are somehow Wedding Engagements Lynn, to Justin Wayne Lee. He is the Hart, Rogers son of Gerald and Lynn Lee of Albuquerque.

The wedding will be on August 22 at Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church. Wolf, Gotti Tracy Hart and Stephen Rogers exchanged marriage vows in a double-ring, evening garden ceremony on May 27 at the home of her father and his wife, Kenneth G. and Armelinda Hart. The bride is the daughter of Marilyn Hart of Albuquerque. Kenneth and Armelinda Hart attended the couple.

The newlyweds will make their home in Houston after their honeymoon trip. The bride is a1 student and the groom is self-employed. Dean and Beatrice Wolf have announced the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Nancy Marie, to Paul Gotti. The groom-to-be is the son of Richard and Irene Gotti of Albuquerque. The couple plan to be married at Our Lady of the Annunciation Church on October 24.

Rogers, Buckley Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Rogers of Cary, N.C., announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Lisa, of Raleigh, N.C., to Robert J. Buckley, also of Raleigh. He is the son of Mrs.

Judith Runner of Sugar Land, Texas, and Robert J. Buckley of San Diego. Grandparents of the groom are Jasper and Joyce Hall of Albuquerque. The couple will be married on October 10 at St. Andrews Roman Catholic Church in Apex, N.C.

Gieske, Miles Dr. and Mrs. John H. Gieske of Albuquerque have announced the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Donna Regina, to Thomas Raymond Miles III. He is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas R. Miles II of Albuquerque. The couple plan a January 7 wedding at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish. Evans, Soister Tricia and Gary Evans of Glen-dale, announce the upcoming marriage of their daughter, Jacki, of Oakland, to David Michael Soister of Berkeley, Calif.

He is the son of Mary Soister of Albuquerque. The couple will be married July 25 at Montclair Presbyterian Church in Oakland. Tidier, Anastasio Hal and Karen Tidier of Albuquerque have announced the engagement of their daughter, Cynthia, to' Brian Michael Anastasio. The prospective groom is the son of James and Gail Anastasio of Albuquerque. The couple plan to be married May 28, 1993.

Daskalos, Dupas Mr. and Mrs. Chris G. Daskalos of Albuquerque announce the upcoming wedding of their daughter, Evangeline, to Theodore Dupas of Los Angeles. The groom-to-be is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. George Dupas of Los Angeles. The couple plan a fall wedding at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Albuquerque. their daughter, Heather Renee, to "Jeffrey Todd Tolley.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Tolley of Albuquerque. The wedding will take place July 25 at St.

John's United Methodist Church in Albuquerque. Duffy, Valdez Luis and Maria Duffy of Albuquerque announce the engagement of their daughter, Vivian Elizabeth, to Albert Isaias Valdez, son of Alberto and Elizabeth Valdez of Albuquerque. The couple plan an October 10 wedding at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Albuquerque. Burr, Darden John T.

Burr of Rochester, N.Y.,. announces the engagement of his daughter, Florence Rebecca, to Thomas A. Darden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H.

Darden of Albuquerque. The bride-to-be is also the daughter of the late Mrs. John T. Burr. The couple plan an October wedding in Rochester, N.Y.

Becker, Wilson Shirley Becker of Albuquerque announces the forthcoming marriage of her daughter, Melissa, to Robert Allen Wilson, son of Samuel and Brenda Wilson of Amarillo, Texas. The couple plan to marry in June 1993. Rajaee, Moore Dr. and Mrs. Ali M.

Rajaee of Albuquerque announce the engagement of their daughter, Lilas Andre, to -Christopher Cameron Moore of Denver. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Grant Moore of Denver. The couple plan an Aug.

21 wedding at the Phipps Mansion in Denver, with a reception to follow at the Phipps Tennis Pavillion. Griego, Sims James and Priscilla Griego of Albuquerque have announced the engagement of their daughter, Cathy Jo, to Scott Paul Sims, son of Edward Sims of Albuquerque and the late Wanda Sims. The couple will be married July 5 in Las Vegas, Nev. Balthaser, Salinas Robert and Nancy Balthaser of Albuquerque announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Stacy Ann, to Fernando J. Salinas, son of Fred and Lydia Salinas of Albuquerque.

The January 2 wedding will take place at Redeemer Lutheran Church. Lovick, Tolley Mary Jo Lovick of Albuquerque and William A. Lovick of Saugus, announce the engagement of Tuesday Morning lnc. Burchett, Ritchie Mr. and Mrs.

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