tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post4939258728588654659..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': The Detective in British FictionMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-10125092003662894952007-12-23T16:25:00.000+00:002007-12-23T16:25:00.000+00:00Interesting points, Xavier. I agree in particular ...Interesting points, Xavier. I agree in particular about Berkeley, whom I admire enormously. I wrote an article about him for the latest issue of 'Mystery Scene' and a version of it will appear on my website before long.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-6085720235382443772007-12-23T09:17:00.000+00:002007-12-23T09:17:00.000+00:00Xavier, like Julian Symons (more about him too soo...<I>Xavier, like Julian Symons (more about him too soon!) I'm definitely open to 'reasoned contradiction'!</I><BR/><BR/>OK, <A HREF="http://atthevillarose.blogspot.com/2007/12/on-martin-edwardss-latest-article.html" REL="nofollow">so here we go</A>. :-)Xavierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05702919450638993709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-51400445256908168602007-12-22T21:15:00.000+00:002007-12-22T21:15:00.000+00:00I enjoyed reading your essay, and you seem to have...I enjoyed reading your essay, and you seem to have impressively covered all the major bases. Michael Innes? Georgette Heyer? The Flaxborough Chronicles? William McIlvanney (Laidlaw) and A. Alverez's "Hunt" (sadly only one book), no doubt others. But as you write, one could go on for ever, and you seem to me to have captured a pretty good representative selection.<BR/><BR/>Maybe this is a topic for a future essay, but "Americans writing about English detectives" is another genre I find fascinating -- Elizabeth George and Deborah Crombie, at any rate. (I think they are both American -- the Englishness of their detectives is a bit alien, at any rate.)Maxine Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06628509319992204770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-83079326351022472312007-12-22T19:16:00.000+00:002007-12-22T19:16:00.000+00:00Xavier, like Julian Symons (more about him too soo...Xavier, like Julian Symons (more about him too soon!) I'm definitely open to 'reasoned contradiction'! As for Martin Hewitt, I agree. In fact, you'll be glad to hear that he's covered in another of my Harcourt essays, about the short story, a version of which will appear on the website before long. There's also mention of Dorrington, Morrison's other rather interesting character.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-86110368842382575272007-12-22T17:21:00.000+00:002007-12-22T17:21:00.000+00:00Good, very good article, though I don't agree on e...Good, very good article, though I don't agree on everything (watch my blog for further comments) It's unfortunate however that you seemed to omit one of the earliest British P.I.'s, Arthur Morrison's Martin Hewitt. He is well-forgotten nowadays, some unfairly in my view, but he sure was a great departure from the conception of the "Great Detective" that was predominant at the time.Xavierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05702919450638993709noreply@blogger.com