WELL if the detective novelists who let the love interest grow like kudzu are Dorothy Sayers, then she is allowed, for the same reason that Hemingway is allowed to write as much about his love life as he wants, which is that they both have interesting things to say about romantic love and I am not left sitting there going I WAS HERE TO READ ABOUT PARIS/MURDER.
However, lesser lights of the detective fiction world ought to confine their romances neatly to subplots, if they must have them at all. I should never be confused about whether I am reading a detective novel vs. a Harlequin romance with a little detecting thrown in for flavor.
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Date: 2017-09-29 01:03 am (UTC)However, lesser lights of the detective fiction world ought to confine their romances neatly to subplots, if they must have them at all. I should never be confused about whether I am reading a detective novel vs. a Harlequin romance with a little detecting thrown in for flavor.