tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post7535823779470701636..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': The not so small world of murderMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-30078706499064512962008-03-10T21:53:00.000+00:002008-03-10T21:53:00.000+00:00Very interesting interview, Peter.I've not read mu...Very interesting interview, Peter.<BR/><BR/>I've not read much Michael Pearce for a long time. Maybe I ought to give him another try.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-39044849903434271002008-03-10T04:25:00.000+00:002008-03-10T04:25:00.000+00:00You'll know that I welcome this trend. With respec...You'll know that I welcome this trend. With respect to globalization and what we read about, you might be interested in Matt Rees' reasons for giving up journalism and taking up novel writing. He likes to say he did this because crime novels were a better way to tell the stories he could not tell as a reporter. He touches on this in an <A HREF="http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/2008/02/interview-with-matt-rees.html" REL="nofollow">interview</A> on my blog and also elsewhere and at readings.<BR/><BR/> By coincidence, I've just been flipping through my first Mamur Zapt book. I've found at least one subject for a possible post.<BR/>===================<BR/> Detectives Beyond Borders<BR/>"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"<BR/> http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-89008261524549885662008-03-07T13:09:00.000+00:002008-03-07T13:09:00.000+00:00Hear hear on the Euro Crime website: my best resou...Hear hear on the Euro Crime website: my best resource I've found since starting blogging.<BR/><BR/>I agree with you about the trends -- Michael Walters' novels in Mongolia and Colin Cotterill's in Laos are two examples - although Cotterill does live in Thailand, at least the same continent if not the same country! I have also read several of Alexander McCall Smith's "ladies' detective agency" series set in Botswana, which largely consist of charming if poignant accounts of daily life in that challenged country. And maybe this does not count as detective fiction, but the thriller writer Lee Child (Jack Reacher books) is English, although now lives in the USA I believe he began the series while still living in Leeds (or somewhere in the UK anyway!).<BR/><BR/>Turning to the older fiction, though, there are the excellent Mamur Zapt series set in Cairo, by Michael Pearce.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com