That's what I'm saying: cyberpunk is a subset of speculative fiction. Hard-boiled noir is a subset of mystery. But you still haven't told me why you think Dorothy Sayers's tone is hard-boiled noir. I can't tell you how Lord Peter is a hard-boiled detective because I feel very strongly that he isn't, and that Dorothy Sayers's tone is not. The Nine Tailors is set in a small English country village; noir is generally urban. Nobody in The Nine Tailors is connected to organized crime. Nobody is betraying each other right and left. There is no atmosphere of fatalistic gloom.
I'm not saying that Wikipedia is the last word on (anything including) noir or hard-boiled crime fiction, but give it a look, see if that helps indicate why I think you've got the wrong mystery subgenre label here.
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Date: 2008-11-29 04:37 am (UTC)I'm not saying that Wikipedia is the last word on (anything including) noir or hard-boiled crime fiction, but give it a look, see if that helps indicate why I think you've got the wrong mystery subgenre label here.