2. I feel like Sayers is perfectly representative of hard-boiled noir, except that this novel didn't read like a mystery to me--more like a really long vignette in the life of Lord Peter (whom I confess I am not particularly interested in, related to point 1). And hard-boiled noir = mystery in my mind, though that is probably an unfair equation. (It's a funny name, too. Why is the noir hard-boiled?)
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2. I feel like Sayers is perfectly representative of hard-boiled noir, except that this novel didn't read like a mystery to me--more like a really long vignette in the life of Lord Peter (whom I confess I am not particularly interested in, related to point 1). And hard-boiled noir = mystery in my mind, though that is probably an unfair equation. (It's a funny name, too. Why is the noir hard-boiled?)