----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Sullivan" <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net>
> Al wrote:
>
> "I suspect that the Police Procedural would make an
excellent Theme of
> the Month. Personally, I'm looking for an excuse to
read some Bill
> James, John Wainright, some more Maj Sjowall, more
Rankin, . . ."
>
>Mark wrote:
> 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.
Probably not. I'm extremely ill-informed when it comes to
what constitutes a police procedural. The Pete Selby
(Jonathan Craig) I'm reading at the moment employs some
strange and intuitive leaps, but it's a procedural despite
being unlike any of the Ed McBain's I've read. Are the Rebus
novels police non-procedurals? Can you have a police
procedural with a maverick central character? If anyone has a
definition, I'd like to hear it.
Ian Rankin has a (relatively) new website up at
www.ianrankin.net Looks good. Apparently, when he wrote his
first Rebus novel he wasn't even aware of "crime" as a genre,
let alone the notion of sub-genres.
Al
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