Comments on: Miss Emily D. Seeton… (With a Title Like That, Could She be Anything But Cozy?!) http://www.cozy-mystery.com/blog/read-some-good-books-tried-unsuccessfully-to-enjoy-new-author.html Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books and DVDs Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:15:39 -0600 hourly 1 By: Danna - cozy mystery list http://www.cozy-mystery.com/blog/read-some-good-books-tried-unsuccessfully-to-enjoy-new-author.html/comment-page-1#comment-2190 Danna - cozy mystery list Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:43:18 +0000 http://www.cozy-mystery.com/blog/read-some-good-books-tried-unsuccessfully-to-enjoy-new-author.html#comment-2190 Exactly, Chris! (And, you are so right about the bad cop committing the crime...) Exactly, Chris!
(And, you are so right about the bad cop committing the crime…)

]]> By: Chris Forman http://www.cozy-mystery.com/blog/read-some-good-books-tried-unsuccessfully-to-enjoy-new-author.html/comment-page-1#comment-2186 Chris Forman Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:35:29 +0000 http://www.cozy-mystery.com/blog/read-some-good-books-tried-unsuccessfully-to-enjoy-new-author.html#comment-2186 I agree with you about the police being portrayed as 'bumbling' in too many cozy mysteries. I like the way Agatha Christie has the police looking to Miss Marple for advice and I also like the way Rex Stout develops the friend and foe, but ever respectful, in the character of Lt. Cramer. I read a bit of the hard-boiled genre as well and find the opposite there. The police are the enemy and get in the way of the PI who is trying to solve the case. Often they are trying to send up the PI him/her self for the crime. Of course in many hard-boiled stories it is a bad cop who has committed the crime. I agree with you about the police being portrayed as 'bumbling' in too many cozy mysteries. I like the way Agatha Christie has the police looking to Miss Marple for advice and I also like the way Rex Stout develops the friend and foe, but ever respectful, in the character of Lt. Cramer. I read a bit of the hard-boiled genre as well and find the opposite there. The police are the enemy and get in the way of the PI who is trying to solve the case. Often they are trying to send up the PI him/her self for the crime. Of course in many hard-boiled stories it is a bad cop who has committed the crime.

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