I don't recall every seeing Sam Spade, Lew Archer, or Phillip
Marlowe viewing cops in general as corrupt. The ones that
were, yeah ... but not in such an over generalization as you
propose. Victorian manners, which Holmes stretched, to the
limit would stop him from voicing such an opinion in the same
manner that an American would ... it's all in the context.
The buddy cop who helps out the hardboiled PI is as true to
the form as the fedora and trench coat.
-- Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
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-----Original Message----- From: jjnevins@ix.netcom.com Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:58 PM
Viewing the police as incompetent, which Holmes did, is fairly common across the history of detective fiction. Viewing the police as venal, which the hardboileds did (with good reason), is not, and was not the case during the Victorian era.
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