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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
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- Subject: Re: Sjowall & Wahloo and other series
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.001118.10561@eff.org>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 00:11:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.141208.22661@samba.oit.unc.edu> joan@med.unc.edu (Joan Shields) writes:
-
- >There are two
- >threads I'd like to propose: the first is does anyone know of other books
- >that do this (ie: Janwillem Van der Wetering's police procedurals set in
- >Amsterdam and perhaps Nicholas Freeling's books as well) and do it
- >particularly well (I realize that Sayer's did it but I would like to avoid
- >the obvious ones and look for series that aren't as well known) and how
- >this adds or subtracts from the books as a whole.
-
- Many people compare Ed McBain's police procedurals to the Sjowall/Wahloo
- books. Me, I like McBain, but I believe that much more planning went into
- the Swedish novels, which were conceived and executed as a 10-book series.
- I strongly recommend that they be read in chronological order, starting
- with ROSEANNA. Those who want to sample McBain's 87th Precinct novels can
- do no better than to start with ICE.
-
- For readers who like to follow the growth of a character over the course
- of several crime/mystery novels, I recommend Robert Parker's first 12
- Spenser books, beginning with THE GODWULF MANUSCRIPT and ending in
- VALEDICTION. (The books after VALEDICTION, which marks a natural
- conclusion to the series, show a significant drop in quality.)
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- --Mike
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