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Rod Crossfield: Selected Adventures of Detective Donnelly reminds me of the oldies

bluewill

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An earlier reviewer (I can’t find the thread) pointed me to Rod Crossfield’s series. He is a police officer who has been writing controversial commentaries at a website called ItSaysHere.com where I have had issue with some of his articles. I did not expect that I would be interested in his fiction work, but I was pleasantly surprised. He has created realistic detectives, no surprise there, but gives them voice with wonderfully realistic dialogue and surrounds them with equally realistic citizens.
The first episode is quick and snappy, and after that the characters grow as if the actors portraying them are developing the personalities as they go. They remind me of the old mysteries of Chandler days.
The stories are puzzlers. Sometimes the clues are excruciatingly obvious after the fact, and the murderer is never who I thought it was.
I would like to see much more of this material, and on his personal website the author indicates that more are in the works.
 
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