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- From: indy@immacc.prepnet.com (Dave Tartaglia)
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- Subject: Police Procedurals
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 12:11:37 -0600
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- I'll second the vote for James Melville's Inspector Otani series.
- Sharp, funny, and insightful.
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- I would add James Marshall's novels:
- the Yellowthread Street series, set in Hong Kong
- the Manilla series, set in the Philippines
- the New York Detective series, in turn-of-the century Manhattan
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- Marshall's stories usually have about three or four subplots going at one time.
- One is usually a mundane-but-funny police life bit, the others carry the
- suspense/mystery/weirdness. Marshall often, but not always, ties the seemingly unrelated threads together at the end. His specialty is writing about
- catastrophic events which take place in a few seconds but are stretched out
- over several pages. Agonizingly good fun!
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- And for laughs, I'll add Gary Alexander's Bamsan Kiet series: funny
- political and social satire set in a fictional country in Southeast Asia.
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