Jonathan,
Re your comment below:
> I found "The House Sitter" by Peter Lovesey 2
months
> ago and since then I have read all his Diamond
books
> (except Upon a dark night - which I am half
way
> through!). I highly recommend these detective
books
> set in Bath, England as very readible, humerous
and
> with intricate, inter-connected
mysteries.
>
> Anyone else read these books?
I have, and, like you, I enjoy them quite a bit. My personal
favorite, so far, has been THE SUMMONS, the third book in the
series, but all of the first three books are very
strong.
One thing about Diamond that I liked very much was his hobby
of collecting autobiographies of famous cops, like Robert
Fabian's FABIAN OF THE YARD and Leonard Read's NIPPER. It
struck me as a very cop-like hobby to have. I liked it so
much that I co-opted it for my cop character, Dan Sullivan,
and, in a so far unpublished short story called "Breath
Test," SUllivan solves the murder partly because of that
Diamon-inspired hobby.
To a degree, I've even developed the hobby myself. In recent
years, Katy has presented me with THE TRAIL OF THE POPPY by
US Narcotics Agent Charles Siragusa, the aforementioned
FABIAN OF THE YARD, and THE D.A.'S MAN by Manhattan DA's
Investigator Harold Danforth.
JIM DOHERTY
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