{"id":9877,"date":"2011-04-07T18:26:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T23:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=9877"},"modified":"2013-01-21T10:59:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:59:02","slug":"montreal-lit-russel-teeds-novel-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/04\/07\/montreal-lit-russel-teeds-novel-noir\/","title":{"rendered":"Montr\u00e9al Lit: Russel Teed\u2019s Novel Noir"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spacing Montreal is pleased to host a bi-weekly column exploring Montreal’s literary landscape, written by Gregory McCormick, Director of English Programming for the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In David Montrose\u2019s crime noir novels set in 1940s Montreal (reissued by V\u00e9hicule Press<\/a>, one of Montreal\u2019s most innovative and interesting presses), private dick Russell Teed is on the hunt for a killer, and he intersects many aspects of Montreal society in his quest. Like most noir novels written at this time, the sexism in The Crime on Cote des Neiges<\/em><\/a> (1951) is so apparent it makes one alternately laugh out loud and cringe, like an old uncle at a birthday party who says things which make all the young people want to run away screaming and laughing with embarrassment:<\/p>\n

\u2026for ten bucks I\u2019ll give you her address. Come on over to the office.<\/em><\/p>\n

We went, and he gave it to me, and it was worth a ten.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a good address, a few blocks away and a whole world apart from the Caliban [a night club on Dorchester Street]. It was across St. Catherine and above Sherbrooke, on the mountain side, which made the magical difference. It was an old brick house on Peel, made over into apartments. The mail box labelled Carol Weller was No. 5, and the apartment labelled No. 5 took up about half of the second floor.<\/em><\/p>\n

The girl\u2026came to the door when I rang. Carol Weller. She was wearing a baby-blue neglig\u00e9e, clinging but not transparent. She might have had something on underneath it and she might not, depending on whether she was naturally endowed or went to a good corset-smith.<\/em><\/p>\n

Indeed, Teed constantly seems to encounter naked or nearly naked women and his only interactions with females are tinged with an aching, repressed sexuality.<\/p>\n

The houses on Peel above Sherbrooke, on the \u201cmountain side\u201d are long gone, of course (much of this \u201cGolden Mile,\u201d as it once was known, has been radically overhauled), replaced with high-rise apartment blocks and hotels, but I imagine that they must not have looked too dissimilar from the buildings on the opposite side of the street.<\/p>\n

Though the book is dated, it\u2019s a fascinating portrait of the city (m\u00eame si les francophones sont absents, sauf exception: Inspector Framboise) and how much Montreal has changed. Also a stark reminder that even the concrete we walk upon is anything but permanent.<\/p>\n

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