The geography of crime novels

[David Morris]

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What Makes Him Tic?
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*The young narrator of this post-modern detective novel suffers from
Tourette's syndrome.*




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BROOKLYN By Jonathan Lethem.311 pp. New
York:Doubleday. <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>> wrote:*

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Apart from being a lazy reader and crime novels being little strain on
> the brain, one reason I enjoy stories set in the US is exploring
> different parts of the country which has fascinated me since I
> discovered DC comics in the late 1950s and watched the Lone Ranger and
> Range Rider on the tube.
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> Having realised that Land's End is the nearest I'm likely to get to the
> US, earlier in the year I decided to explore it by crime novels,
> starting with LA. With a list of lesser known LA based series, reading
> mostly using the Internet Archive Library I had Wiki and Google
> Maps/Streetview open and gradually got the layout and look of LA sorted
> in my head.
>
> I can't say I discovered any great prose or notable story telling but
> two authors I'd recommend as a result are Barbara Serranella and Timothy
> Hallinan. Street life stories from the former and crim world comedy from
> the latter - a burglar who does PI jobs for those who can't go to the
> police, i.e. other criminals - good fun. I read several African-American
> writers, which was good for social-economic perspectives but none as
> writers or storytellers a patch on Walter Mosley.
>
> So where next...
>
> On 21/10/2021 17:14, Mark Kohut wrote:
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/books/classic-crime-novels-that-still-thrill-today.html
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