Posted by John Nichols on July 26, 2012 at 17:00:37 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: Chronological reading posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on July 21, 2012 at 16:46:18:
There were earlier precedents, but Lawrence Treat's 1945 novel V as in Victim is often[citation needed] cited as perhaps the first true police procedural
Yet Big Six was written in 1940.
I agree Big Six is a police procedural, I am rereading it slowly at the moment, but it is not in my mind his best, second maybe but not best, one of SA, SW, WDMTGS or PM is best, changes from year to year.
In my "teenage mind" Dorothy is the perfect woman, except for my Cousin, who is so close to Dot that it is not funny.
JMN