John J Desjarlais
Monday, July 25, 2022
50 Best Questions for an Author
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I've collected 50 of the best questions I've heard as an author (along with my replies) and I'll present them here in bunches ...
Thursday, March 10, 2022
The Police Procedural, conclusion
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Let's proceed with procedurals (pardon me) and their general qualities. 6. Police Procedurals have humor. How else can they deal with t...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
The Police Procedural Part 2
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Ten general features characterize the police procedural. I say "general" because the sub-genre has greatly diversified, from urban...
Thursday, January 6, 2022
The Police Procedural Part 1
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Anyone who has seen "Dragnet", "Law and Order," or any NCIS franchise is familiar with police procedurals. Since the 19...
Monday, October 4, 2021
The Hard-Boiled PI part 2
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The Pulps and "The Black Mask" In the late 1890s, the dime novel we considered in the previous post gave way to the "pulp...
Whiskey, Guns, and Lipstick: The Hardboiled Private Eye part 1
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Poe may have 'invented' the detective story, but it was mainly a British form into the 1930s. Yes, there were some French writers a...
Saturday, December 12, 2020
End of the Golden Age
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I thought I might expound upon Ellery Queen and The Golden Age in America in this posting, but there's plenty about "Manny and Dan...
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