Kevin,
Re your comments below:
> And 2 [American] and 7 [working out of a large
US
> city] generally apply
> only to American
> writers.
Even today, the vast majority of PI writers, characters like
Dick Francis's Sid Halley notwithstanding, ARE American,
which was my point. And a surprisingly large number of
non-American writers who wrote PI stories, such as James
Hadley Chase, Peter Cheney, and Peter Chambers (not to be
confused with the PI character of the same name) used
American characters and settings precisely because the PI
story was so closely identified with the US.
Certainly this has changed to a degree in recent years, but
the hard-boiled private eye character is still widely
regarded as an American, just as the trafditional "cozy"
amateur is still widely regarded as a Briton, despite the
large influx of American writers and characters in recent
years.
JIM DOHERTY
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