Re: RARA-AVIS: Procedurals (was: Jonathan Craig)

From: Al Guthrie ( allanguthrie@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: 11 Aug 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "JIM DOHERTY" < jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com>

> Al,
>
> Re your comment below:
>
> > While I like the idea, I've got to ask if Rankin's
> > books really qualify
> > as procedurals. It seems to me that John Rebus is
> > pretty seat of the
> > pants in his investigative style and intuitive
> > leaps.
>
> So are lots of real-life cops. Rankin researches
> police work in Edinburgh and accurately relfects it in
> his fiction. Ergo, they're procedurals. Why do you
> guys over-analyuze so much?

Not my comment, Jim. For once we're in agreement. The question was raised by Mark.

Al

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