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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I've read enough detective/cop/lawyer/secret agent where they do talk of previous cases in previous books. So that would be a spoiler for sure.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Even if the mystery/crime might be standalone, the background stuff is not and that to me makes it not standalone.
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Read Raymond Chandler. All of his novels feature Philip Marlowe, but there is no continuity between the books. Marlowe is a bit of a cypher. We never see him doing anything other than working on the case at hand. There are no side characters other than Bernie Ohls, a police detective he is friendly with. And he only shows occasionally with no continuity from story to story.