On Mon, 13 Aug, Stephen Holden wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if any gimmicky spy novels were
published in the 60s or 70s
> that took the form of loose-leaf folders containing
all the relevant
> 'documents' ('Top Secret' papers, surveillance
reports, etc).
Perhaps of related interest--in the early 80s, perhaps as
early as the late 70s, all-text interactive computer games
often came packaged with case files, including photos,
letters, crime scene reports, etc. Infocom (of Zork fame) put
out the best series, sometimes imitating hard-boiled
features, with titles such as Deadline, The Witness, Suspect.
In the sense that the documents you mention were to help a
reader solve a mystery that the text left open, there would
be some similarity.
Wrote a short piece on computer detective games for The
Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing.
Bill Hagen
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