Lay Lines by Carol Lay for July 08, 2024

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    Ida No  4 months ago

    Relatable. Very few mystery readers are ex-cops.

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    Yngvar Følling  4 months ago

    I miss Columbo, whose only gimmick was his shabby appearance. Unless you count it as a gimmick that we always knew who the murderer was from the beginning.

    Vera Stanhope, of British series Vera, has something of the same.

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    Pharmakeus Ubik  4 months ago

    Good copper? It didn’t come from Ea-nāṣir then.

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    morningglory73 Premium Member 4 months ago

    Just plain ‘copper’ is fine with me or FBI or military etc…

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    mokspr Premium Member 4 months ago

    Dude! That will never sell in Scandinavia!

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    Judeeye Premium Member 4 months ago

    Another grand slam Monday. I’m not saying the others couldn’t write a good book, but I’m reasonably certain the “copper” can bring something to the table through years of real life experience. I particularly like the last panel. It feels all too real. People are so ready to make definitive statements that are rarely based on truth. Hope everyone has a great Monday.

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    Teto85 Premium Member 4 months ago

    Several well known detective authors based their characters on fictionalized versions of people they knew or even themselves; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Erle Stanley Gardner, Kathy Reichs (Happy 75th birthday yesterday), Joseph Wambaugh. I have many of these books in my library and a few Perry Mason movies from the 1930s as well.

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    willie_mctell  4 months ago

    We haven’t gotten to the car yet.

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    Ed The Red Premium Member 4 months ago

    Detectives in novels are brilliant and always solve the crimes without fail. If they are also a normal, well-adjusted person, they come across to readers as unrealistically perfect.

    And maybe we can blame Doyle: Sherlock Holmes was quite eccentric. But it’s a formula that works.

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    eddi-TBH  4 months ago

    His character edges into fantasy territory.

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    egadi'mnotclad  4 months ago

    I enjoyed the Canadian weekly show about a Coronor in western BC, I think Vancouver. It had a brief run here. Davinci’s Inquest had other major characters including the aging but canny Detective, a gritty young cop, and even a Hog Farm story line.

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