Although it's not prose fiction, a case could be made that
the whole sub-genre of hard-boiled, crime-solving journalists
began in the stage play THR FRONT PAGE by Ben Hecht and
Charles MacArthur, in which Hildy Johnson exposes three acts
worth of crooked cops, corrupt politicians, and judicial
chicanery when all he wants to do is quit the newspaper game
and get married.
R.R. Irvine, who write a pretty good PI series about a
fallen-away Mormon who operates an agency in Salt Lake City,
started out with a series of PBO's about an investigative
reporter at a TV station named (IIRC) Bob Christopher.
The hero of Dick Francis's FORFEIT is a sports reporter who
uncovers a race-fixing scheme and gets the bad guys on his
case as a result of his exposes. Francis was a sportswriter
himself in between being the world's greatest steeplechase
jockey and a mystery writer.
James Patterson's THE THOMAS BERRYMAN NUMBER, another Edgar
winner, also features an investigative political reporter.
It's probably his best book, but also his least
successful.
JIM DOHERTY
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