Re: RARA-AVIS: Procedurals (was: Jonathan Craig)

From: JIM DOHERTY ( jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com)
Date: 11 Aug 2002

Al,

Re your comment below:

> While I like the idea, I've got to ask if Rankin's
> books really qualify
> as procedurals. It seems to me that John Rebus is
> pretty seat of the
> pants in his investigative style and intuitive
> leaps.

So are lots of real-life cops. Rankin researches police work in Edinburgh and accurately relfects it in his fiction. Ergo, they're procedurals. Why do you guys over-analyuze so much?

JIM DOHERTY

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