Re: the detective novel/detective fiction

FCS wrote:
> 
> So perhaps you might like to expand on the
> part played by Mr Brownlow in Oliver Twist
> if it wasn't to weave together the clues which
> were never provided?

I might not.


> I notice you draw no distinction between the
> past tense implicit in "peaked" and the ongoing
> interest.


I think it was you who mentioned about people still going to Baker Street.


> I note also that you entirely overlook the works
> of Agatha Christie.


Not at all.  It was my first thought and wondered why you didn't mention
her.


> I note also that you follow your usual MO of
> adding nothing worthwhile to the discussion.


There wasn't a discussion to which to add, just your assertion that the
writer 
was incorrect.

>>
>> Isaac Asimov?  You do have a sense of humour.
> 
> Whereas you merely appear not to have a thermometer.
> 

Getting hot under the collar ?


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Blue Sow