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cbabe

(5,437 posts)
Wed May 24, 2023, 12:08 PM May 2023

If you like lists: Top 10 cops in fiction [View all]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/24/top-10-cops-in-fiction-alan-parks

Top 10 cops in fiction

At war with the establishment, putting themselves in reckless danger and succumbing to terrible habits, these unreliable figures are dependably entertaining

Alan Parks
Wed 24 May 2023 07.00 EDT

Cops. Good ones, bad ones, corrupt ones, ones with hunches, ones that fight the system, ones that drink, ones that have unhappy home lives, ones that have an unsolved case haunting them. They come in all varieties in crime fiction – though sadly for the most part they are still all men – and apart from solving the case in hand they have to entertain us en route. Their foibles are part of the deal. The cop who listens to classical music, who spends half his hours drinking real ale in a cosy pub, the cop who reads philosophy in his spare time. Every cop needs a gimmick.

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inspector cleuseau comes to mind rampartc May 2023 #1
Dave Robichaeux, James Lee Burke's principal character. rsdsharp May 2023 #2
Sherlock Holmes! Beatlelvr May 2023 #3
Hmmm gay texan May 2023 #4
Jack Frost, Columbo and Jim Rockford Chainfire May 2023 #5
Rockford wasn't a cop ExWhoDoesntCare May 2023 #7
Well, let's see if I can answer without getting slammed for it ExWhoDoesntCare May 2023 #6
Lt. Leaphorn and Jim Chee/Tony Hillerman and cbabe May 2023 #8
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