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- From: libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson)
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- Subject: Re: Sjowall & Wahloo and other series
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:39:45 GMT
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- Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- joan@med.unc.edu (Joan Shields) writes:
- :
- : I recently started rereading the Martin Beck books by
- : Maj Sjowall and Per Whaloo. They are ten books, a series of police
- : procedurals set in Sweden. Not only are they good mysteries (in the
- : police procedural sub-genre of mysteries) they also chart the life of
- : Martin beck as he goes through some major life changes. 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.
- :
- : The second thread would be a discussion of the Sjowall/Whaloo books
- : themselves.
- :
- : Anyone interested?
- :
- : Wet fishes and stolen kisses,
- :
- : Joan
-
- Ed McBain's 87th Precinct books are a lot of fun. He's been
- writing about the same handful of cops for, jeez, I guess over
- thirty years now, and he's kept them as realistic as possible,
- considering that they age at a rate of about 1 year for every
- four. There are several zillion of these books, and some of
- them are crap, and some of the early ones haven't dated well,
- but on the whole I recommend them heartily.
-
- Bill
-