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MatCoward@aol.com> asked for DIN U.S. equivalents.
There must be thousands. Off the top of my head from what
I've read recently are Randisi's Keough and Harstad's
Houseman.
Joy
I'd said:
> << I've read a couple of Ian Rankins and have
been sort of on the fence as
to
> whether they're police procedurals. Rebus has seemed
to either take off on
> his own or be sent off; he is often only very
loosely affiliated with the
> police department. I can see that the series isn't
the exemplar of police
> procedurals while still allowing it in my version of
that category. >>
>
> For my own purposes, I always class this kind of
book as a "Detective
> Inspector Novel". I feel that police procedurals,
strictly, are ensemble
> stories, and that they should have a kind of
detached flatness or
objectivity
> to them - the actual activities of the cops, in a
largely unglamourised
> manner, should be central to every scene, and
pre-eminent in the book as a
> whole. On the other hand, Rankin, Reginald Hill, RD
Wingfield, and dozens
of
> others, write about a man (or a duo) at the centre
of everything, and that
> character's cogitation is more important than
procedure, even though a
fair
> amount of procedure does occur "on stage". Off hand,
I can't think if
there's
> a US equivalent to "DINs"?
> - Mat C
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