Kevin (hi Kevin!):
> Cozies and
> amateur sleuth mysteries (particularly those
labelled as
> "traditional") tend to closed worlds, and spy
fiction and thrillers
> too often reduce politics to the cartoon
level.
Those are also political stands. It's extremely political to
try to shut out all the politics. And in the end, in spy
stories and cozies, we have an amazing amount of sexual and
textual politics to be dealt with.
> So, some of my favourite "political" crime authors,
just off the top
> of my head:
Great list - but no Dashiell Hammett! "Red Harvest" and "The
Glass Key" are surely political.
Juri
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