{"id":256,"date":"2006-10-11T12:54:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T16:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=256"},"modified":"2006-10-11T12:54:17","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T16:54:17","slug":"detective-novels-the-best-ones-are-written-by-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Detective Novels: The Best Ones Are Written by Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maxine is calling for suggestions on <a href=\"http:\/\/petrona.typepad.com\/petrona\/2006\/10\/ten_greatest_ma.html\">strong detective novels written by women<\/a> in response to David Montgomery&#8217;s list, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimefictionblog.com\/2006\/10\/10_greatest_det.html\">10 Greatest Detective Novels<\/a>, which did not have one female author. Block, Chandler, Crumley, Hammett, Stout, and others make Montgomery&#8217;s list, and he explains in the comments on Petrona that he doesn&#8217;t like P.D. James and further: &#8220;My favorite contemporary female detective writers are probably Laura Lippman and Denise Hamilton. I think they&#8217;re both great writers, but neither quite cracked the list.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An interesting discussion has begun. One commenter notes the dominance of American writers. That seems only natural to me. We, Americans, are the best in the world at everything, except maybe soccer and automobiles, so naturally we write the best detectives novels. <\/p>\n<p>We blog better than anyone else too.<\/p>\n<p>And stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I will be ducking and running now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maxine is calling for suggestions on strong detective novels written by women in response to David Montgomery&#8217;s list, 10 Greatest Detective Novels, which did not have one female author. Block, Chandler, Crumley, Hammett, Stout, and others make Montgomery&#8217;s list, and he explains in the comments on Petrona that he doesn&#8217;t like P.D. James and further: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Detective Novels: The Best Ones Are Written by Men<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[753,1963],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-detective-stories","tag-mystery"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}