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Old 01-24-2018, 12:38 AM   #149
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Dorothy Sayers apparently (though Dorothy Dunnett is also plausible).
Of Lord Peter Wimsey fame? I read a couple of them years back.

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Note that Lois McMaster Bujold's Komarr is also a police procedural and that the author and her friend Patricia C Wrede had a good giggle about achieving a book where the hero is a member of the secret police.
Secret police? I can't quite see a Barrayaran Imperial Auditor aka Emperor's Voice as being secret police. It's hard to be secretive when to quote from Diplomatic Immunity: "if an Emperor's Voice so ordered it, they'd shoot themselves." Now if we discussing his earlier career in Imperial Security, I could accept secret police.
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