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Originally Posted by GA Russell
I read what I thought was an interesting comment about the police procedural genre: Movies and their styles are based upon books. But in the case of the police procedural, the movie (and television show) came first.
The first police procedural was the movie The Naked City, followed promptly by the TV show Dragnet. Then came the books.
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Debatable, I think.
For example the Frank Froest books (died 1930) that I uploaded recently were written by a retired detective, are police procedurals, but predate television.