Betsy,
Re your comment below:
> My only
> quarrel [with the 87th Precinct series], he sets
the
> stories in
> a fictive city he calls Isoleta which is clearly
New
> York, and I'm never sure
> of the purpose of that.
He'd written a few NYC-set police procedural short stories
prior to starting the novels. (The shorts appeared under the
"Hunter" byline and other names in magazines like ARGOSY and
MANHUNT; some are collected in THE McBAIN BRIEF).
Anyway, when he started the novels he was finding that he was
researching a lot more deeply into NYPD procedures. He was
also finding that those procedures changed so rapicly that he
had trouble keeping up. To give himself some wiggle-room, he
fictionalized NYC so he'd have an excuse if he got some
detail incorrect.
JIM DOHERTY
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