I think we have exhausted the possibilities of the form, and it's time for reinvention. People who write this kind of fiction need to understand what their social obligations are. If you just mail it in and just stick to some formula that is no longer relevant to the world we live in, you're doing society a disservice. So, yes, I do think it is possible to reinvent it, but I think it's going to require a change of heart among the within the creative community.
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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