"Timothy S. Oliver":
>
> I've been reading McBain's The Last Dance. Time and
again the crew at the
> 87th consider coincidence a normal factor in police
work. I've always
> considered it a nearly universal theme in crime
fiction that there's no such
> thing as coincidence.
Maybe it's just McBain himself that has a thing for
coincidence, as he has used it at least twice as a major plot
device; in
'TIL DEATH and FUZZ. Also, the perpetrator in HE WHO
HESITATES was caught in a later novel (can't recall which
one) by coincidence when the 87th guys were working on a
completely unrelated case.
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