Stark's Parker series has reached 24 books with the '08 publication of DIRTY
MONEY.
Ron C.
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> Behalf Of Brian Thornton
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> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Long-running series
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> Kevin wrote:
>
> "And for that matter, what other long-running series come to mind?
>
> Well there are the obvious ones:
>
> John D. MacDonald wrote, what? 25 Travis McGee novels?
>
> Parker's Spenser series must be close to the big "four-oh" by now.
>
> And Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer series ran twenty-one (I think) books over
> twenty-seven years.
>
> And that seems right to me. After all, MacDonald's books are twice as
good
> as anything Parker's written (since the guy doesn't even do second drafts
> anymore, if in fact he ever did), so it strikes me as fitting that he
wrote
> half-as many series books.
>
> YMMV-
>
> Brian
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