In a message dated 2/20/08 2:44:07 PM,
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net writes:
>
> 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.
>
T. Jefferson Parker, Robert Crais and Michael Connelly have
all utilized the technique in recent years. of the 3, I
believe Parker was the first
John Lau
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