Harry,
In recent hardboiled fiction, mostly PI novels, there's a
trend to incorporate chapters of third person material in a
narrative that is first person overall. This is often to
report events that the narrator did not witness/was not
involved in and/or to show the actions of the killer, often
serial killer, being hunted by the PI. Block, for instance,
has used it in at least one recent Scudder (I think he used
it in the most recent one, too, which I have not yet read).
The recently deceased Benjamin Schutz used the technique in
his first novel, Embrace the Wolf.
Mark
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