--- Mark Sullivan <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
> I seem to remember
> reading that Loren
> Estlemen once made a rule (which he has since
broken
> with Amos Walker)
> never to write more than seven books in a
series.
> Are there any series
> that go much beyond that number that did/do not
show
> severe dropoff?
Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder series. Without question, there
are some books that are better than others, but I think this
is one of the most consistent series out there. His latest,
HOPE TO DIE, is the 14th or 15th in the series, if I remember
correctly, and I recommend it (although I haven't finished it
yet, so I suppose I could change my opinion if the ending
stinks. I doubt it, though.).
And speaking of sidekicks, Scudder has another one
(besides Mick, I mean), the streetwise TJ, who is
considerably less sociopathic than Scudder himself. I think
he first appears in A DANCE AT THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE in the
early 90s.
He also has nine or ten books in his Burglar series, which I
like very much but is nothing like hard-boiled. Although I
suspect that many Rara-Avians would not enjoy this series as
much as Scudder, it, too, is pretty consistent.
G.
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