I posted a piece about the Great American Novel over on
Poe's Deadly Daughters this week. It ended with a call to readers to nominate their choices for the Great American Mystery. As I said over there:
What could be more American than Laura Lippman's Baltimore, Margaret
Maron's North Carolina, Dana Stabenow's Alaska, and Nevada Barr's
National Parks? And few dispute that the private eye novel is an
American form…
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