Carrie,
Re your question below:
> Here's a question: I've often found that writers
who
> are very adept at
> writing about a certain place seem to stumble
when
> the heroes leave it. . .
> So - can you come up with any books where the
author
> takes the detective out
> of his/her "natural habitat" and really succeeds
at
> it?
You answer the question in your very next post. Dashiell
Hammett's RED HARVEST takes the Op out of the San Francisco
Bay Area and into a rural mining town in the Pacific
Northwest. I think it's one of the best PI books ever
written.
The Op also leaves The City in the short stories
"Corkscrew" (a sort of short story warm-up for HARVEST),
"This King Business" (in which he travels to a foreign
country), and in the last half of the novel THE DAIN CURSE,
which is set in a resort spot far north of the Bay Area, and
he's successfull (IMHO) in all of the locales.
JIM DOHERTY
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