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Originally Posted by Quoth
Also the now common and usually irrelevant disclaimer about 1980s being different at the start.
Why are publishers doing this? Do they think Detective-Mystery story readers are stupid?
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While it's irritating, I can find it in my heart to forgive it if the point is to derail criticisms of content based on current mores. Not that there are any commercial considerations to doing so!
As for the glossary, if it's at the back so I won't see it until I'm done anyway, I'm good. Although I do nurse a resentment regarding the practice of dumbing down British books for the perceived idiocy of the American reader.