--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jacquesdebierue"
<jacquesdebierue@...> wrote:
>
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Lawrence William Coates
> <coatesl@> wrote:
>
> > Seems to me that a detective who takes the money and walks off,
> leaving the murder unsolved, would also be a narrative scandal. If we
> knew that the detective could pin the murder on someone, but declines
> to because he or she is corrupt in a corrupt world, or for some other
> motivation, that might be a satisfying story. Otherwise, I dunno.
> >
>
> Joe Puma would do it... and I am sure that Ross Thomas could write you
> a character that does exactly that. We are used to an assumed morality
> (or at least professional ethics) for the PI, but that doesn't mean
> it's written in stone. Fast Lane is a very good example of subversion
> in recent PI fiction... it can be done.
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
>
Al Guthrie wrote a terrific short story with a corrupt PI.
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