Police fiction in all of those forms is an exercise in narcissism. These are not novels and shows about solving crimes, they're shows about crime solvers. It's time for us to turn our backs on a spy novel, right? No more. Enough. I'm sure all of you have been watching the Governor of Florida on his current cultural cleansing campaign. And where is Ron DeSantis when we need him? He's so busy banning Jodi Pecone novels that he's missed the real culprit,. Lee Child, John Drisham, Ed McBane, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Let us go to the Hudson News at the Jacksonville airport, take all of those paper
Today, another episode from the Revisionist History Live universe. It's an old fashioned lecture, recorded at the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University. Malcolm talks about a totally real thing he made up—a taxonomy of the modern mystery story—with a focus on murder mysteries and police procedurals. From Dragnet, to John Grisham, to Sherlock Holmes, it's all in there...and all connected to how we view real policing.
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