Mark wrote:
>I seem to remember reading that Loren
>Estlemen once made a rule (which he has since broken
with Amos Walker)
>never to write more than seven books in a series. Are
there any series
>that go much beyond that number that did/do not show
severe dropoff?
Joseph Hansen's Brandstetter books, Stephen Greenleaf's Marsh
Tanner, JDM's Travis McGee, Dewey's Mac series, Pronzini's
Nameless... and where are we with Lansdale's Hap and Leonard
now? They all went beyond six or seven. Sure, there are
better books within each series, but overall, I think the
quality held up. The problem, as I see it with Spenser, and
with Gardner's A.A. Fair books, is that there were just so
many that even the good books start to run into each other,
and after a while, the characters don't grow very much. But
generally, if you like one, you'll like them all...
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