A friend of mine says they show the authors' progression to
the left. I plan to acquire them all eventually, read them in
order, and see if I agree. I read them all (or most of them)
out of the library in any old order long ago, and I liked
them a lot.
They do seem to be closer to my
concept of police procedural than those I've read from
non-U.S. countries where the judge is involved in the
investigation. Joy
Jim Beaver <
jumblejim@prodigy.net> said:
> I certainly meant no slur on the Martin Beck books
by calling them
> "semi-procedurals." The Becks are among my very
favorite crime stories.
I
> simply wanted to express a slightly different
feeling given me by the
Becks
> as opposed to the 87th Precincts or the Terry Marlow
book I just finished
> (it held up!). There's something about the Becks
that I can't quite put
my
> finger on, that separates them in my mind, for some
reason, from
> nuts-and-bolts cop operation books. But the more I
explore that
> "something," the less I can come up with to describe
it. So I'm more than
> willing to "restore" them to full procedural status,
while I try to figure
> out what made me feel slightly differently about
them as compared to
> McBain's boys.
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