Bill,
Damn, you went and stole my thunder. I was going to mention
Craig, but you beat me to it, and have left me with little to
add. Not, however, with NOTHING to add:
Two trivia points about Craig's Pete Selby series:
First, paralleling McBain, who wrote NYPD procedural short
stories for magazines like MANHUNT and ARGOSY before starting
the 87th Precinct series, Craig wrote first wrote porcedurals
for MANHUNT. In fact the first Selby novel, THE DEAD DARLING,
was an exapnded version of a short story with the same title
that originally appeared in MANHUNT.
Second, when Anthony Boucher first coined the term
"police procedural" in his Christmas column for 1956, he
mentioned, not surprisingly, DRAGNET, McBain, and Marric. One
other writer he mentioned very prominently was Craig. In that
sense Craign is one of the founding fathers of this
sub-genre. Boucer would say elsewhere that, with the
exception of McBain, Craig was the best American writer of
big-city procedurals.
JIM DOHERTY
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