Bill C:
> My idea is that American readers tend to like the
idea that
> a single individual can often succeed where the
bureacuracy
> (as represented in detective stories by the police)
can't.
Maybe that's where I go "wrong". As a European (and even more
as a North-European) I tend to think that bureacracy - i.e.
police and other authorities - are the ones who should be
called to help, not some individual.
But this is getting off-topic.
Juri
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