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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux
Kinsey lost credibility, when she barged her way into spending the weekend with the Hispanic (Chicano?) gang.
That said, I've seen an alleged Kinsey mystery for Z. Didn't pick it up at the time, and couldn't find it later.
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Y'know, at some point in time, I just stopped being able to read them. The entire "I'm leaving Kinsey in the 80's so that she doesn't have the net and computers worth a damn and smartphones" felt...forced to me, like "oh, it's too hard to write mysteries now that people can
immediately call someone, even when trapped in a dumpster with a rabid pitbull" sort of thing.
I thought it was a shame, I kinda liked the series for a while there. My take on it is if Rex Stout and Gardner could bring their sleuths along in time, so too could Kinsey move forward in time. (I do confess that I don't feel the same way about Holmesian pastiches. There's simply something 19th-Century about Holmes & Watson and I've never enjoyed any of the attempts to bring them to this, or the last, century. And no, I wasn't wild about Cumberbund and the wee man,either.)
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