{"id":297,"date":"2006-06-07T10:57:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T10:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/07\/the-mystery-of-series\/"},"modified":"2006-06-07T10:57:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T10:57:05","slug":"the-mystery-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/07\/the-mystery-of-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Crooked Timber, Harry Brighouse <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2006\/06\/07\/more-fun-books\/\">recommends mystery writers<\/a>, and touches on something that&#8217;s always puzzled me about the genre:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Like Symons [Robert Barnard] has largely eschewed the detective <i>series<\/i>, which is probably has kept his profile lower than it could have been, but there is one recurring character&#8211;the english way of death.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve really never understood why it is that mystery novels always seem to come in series. In fact, it&#8217;s not unusual to see a debut novel hailed for introducing a series, which always seems sort of premature to me.<\/p>\n<p>Why <strong>is<\/strong> that, anyway? That is, why is the series the default form of mystery novel, while other genres are more prone to stand-alone? Suggestions (and recommendations of mystery authors, though my own tastes run more to Raymond Chandler than Agatha Christie) are welcome in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>(Grading? What grading?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Crooked Timber, Harry Brighouse recommends mystery writers, and touches on something that&#8217;s always puzzled me about the genre: Like Symons [Robert Barnard] has largely eschewed the detective series, which is probably has kept his profile lower than it could have been, but there is one recurring character&#8211;the english way of death. I&#8217;ve really&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/07\/the-mystery-of-series\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mystery of Series<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}