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 RK> Sorry about replying so late.    My mystery reading is hap-hazard.   I
 RK> have  read very few of the better known writers except for Tony 
 RK> Hillerman.   I have read nearly all (28 out of 33) of 
 RK> Arthur Upfield's series about a half-European/ half-
 RK> Aborigine Inspector in the Queensland police force with the 
 RK> unlikely name of Napoleon Bonaparte.   Unfortunately, I 
 RK> think they are all out of print again.   I have read 
I think they are back in print again.  I've seen a whole section of a local
bookstore dedicated to Upfield's mysteries.
If you can't find them, let me know if you are missing any.  Perhaps I could
find them around here.
 RK> Bruce Alexander has a new series based on real historical 
 RK> character, Sir John Fielding, a blind 18th century London 
 RK> magistrate.   He created one of the 1st English police 
 RK> forces, the Bow Street Runners, and was brother to Henry 
 RK> Fielding, the novelist.   The 1st one is called Blind 
 RK> Justice.
Ah, interesting.  Henry Fielding served as a magistrate also for some time.
Have yo read any of them?  What did you think of it?
 RK> And I've read a number of others.   The very first Ruth 
 RK> Rendell.   A couple of Anne Perry books and so forth.
Which one of Perry's two series did you read--or both possibly?  I'm reading
the Monk series right now.  Might look in on the other sometime.
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