From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #16288 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, July 2 2025 Volume 14 : Number 16288 Today's Subjects: ----------------- CRYSTAL CLEAR HEARING, UNINTERRUPTED. ["AudienHearing Partner" Subject: CRYSTAL CLEAR HEARING, UNINTERRUPTED. CRYSTAL CLEAR HEARING, UNINTERRUPTED. http://spectrelaptop.ru.com/MzU9cd6qW9PxK2hjR-C4n6cAX9g5up4d37dc8yuF5JNudo6c http://spectrelaptop.ru.com/X5SzGqoDVPgmvT9QL94KO_i55TfKmYLGb1U0LDiB9iYh6VJ1 d McBain in importance to the development of the procedural as a distinct mystery subgenre is John Creasey, a prolific writer of many different kinds of crime fiction, from espionage to criminal protagonist. He was inspired to write a more realistic crime novel when his neighbor, a retired Scotland Yard detective, challenged Creasey to "write about us as we are". The result was Inspector West Takes Charge, 1940, the first of more than forty novels to feature Roger West of the London Metropolitan Police. The West novels were, for the era, an unusually realistic look at Scotland Yard operations, but the plots were often wildly melodramatic, and, to get around thorny legal problems, Creasey gave West an "amateur detective" friend who was able to perform the extra-procedural acts that West, as a policeman, could not. In the mid-1950s, inspired by the success of television's Dragnet and a similar British TV series, Fabian of the Yard, Creasey decided to try a more down-to-earth series of cop stories. Adopting the pseudonym "J.J. Marric", he wrote Gideon's Day, 1955, in which George Gideon, a high-ranking detective at Scotland Yard, spends a busy day supervising his subordinates' investigations into several unrelated crimes. This novel was the first in a series of more than twenty books which brought Creasey his best critical notic ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #16288 ***********************************************