a detective novel;
a historical novel;
a heroic fantasy.
How many kinds of people investigate murders? -
private consulting detectives;
police;
amateur detectives;
investigative journalists.
Poul Anderson has perhaps four private detectives, three of them science fictional, and also cameos the Great Detective in the first Time Patrol story;
Asimov's Elijah Bailey and Niven's Gil Hamilton are police;
Asimov's Wendell Urth and Black Widowers are amateurs;
Stieg Larsson's Mikael Blomkvist is a journalist whose investigation parallels that of the police.
Thus, Anderson contributes to detective fiction but (I think) to only one of the four kinds of investigators.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And I still wonder if the stories Anderson wrote for THE SAINT DETECTIVE MAGAZINE that I listed in part III of my article "The Uncollected Works Of Poul Anderson" also featured his Japanese/Norwegian dectective Trygve Yamamura. One of those stories, "Pythagorean Romajii" certainly looks like something that would involve Yamamura!
Sean
Kaor, Paul!
Holger Carlsen acts as an amateur detective at one point in THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS, determining by logical reasoning which member of a family must be a werewolf, so Anderson arguably did give us an amateur detective.
You say four detectives, three of them science fictional. Trygve Yamamura is the one who isn't science fictional; otherwise, there's Sherrinford in "The Queen of Air and Darkness," and what's-his-name from "The Martian Crown Jewels." I must admit, I can't think of the fourth detective, unless you meant Holger Carlsen.
Best Regards,
Nicholas D. Rosen
Kaor, Nicholas!
There's also the Hoka "Sherlock Holmes," in story co-written by Poul Anderson and Gordon Dickson, "The Adventure Of The Misplaced Hound."
Regards! Sean
Both,
That's the one!
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I thought so!
Sean
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