Doug wrote:
"The DKA novels may be scrupously accurate portrayals of PI
offices of their time; I don't know, I don't know anything
about PI offices. If you like them for that reason, great.
But I've read a few of them and thought "87th Precinct
knockoff"."
Out of curiosity, were they the earlier ones? They make a big
shift around 32 Cadillacs, when humor becomes a much bigger
element (while being no less procedural) -- tellingly, there
was a DKA/Parker crossover in an early book, but a
DKA/Dortmunder one in 32 Cadillacs.
Mark
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