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Date: 2008-11-30 06:46 pm (UTC)In American cozies Gerald is a businessman or a politican or something, and everyone listens to NPR.
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Date: 2008-11-30 06:53 pm (UTC)Miss Marple would never visit Poisonville because a Poisonville is not possible in her universe.
1: I will admit there are some cozies where the protagonist seems to be waiting for more murders to narrow down the suspects, rather like the conversation in Demolition Man where one cop suggests the best way to find the criminal they are looking for is to wait until he commits another murder/death/kill.
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Date: 2008-12-01 01:04 am (UTC)And now I want to read "Miss Marple in Poisonville."
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Date: 2008-12-01 06:06 am (UTC)But I think Poisonville could exist in Miss Marple's universe. It would be a place a character is from, not a place to visit, but it would be there.
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Date: 2008-11-30 06:47 pm (UTC)I think the closest thing to a big city cozy that I can think of would be the Dog Lover's Mysteries by Susan Conant, whose heroine lives with her dogs in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Date: 2008-11-30 07:07 pm (UTC)Boston and Cambridge both CAN work as small towns, albeit, small towns with millions of people in them. But socially, we're more of a small-town mold -- or, perhaps, many, many overlapping small towns. Still, we have that sort of social structure.
Which means that, depending on which subcultures you work in, Boston can work for both cozies AND for hard-boiled stories. . . . I wonder if it would be possible to write an intersection story based around that . . . I can't even begin to conceive of what that would look like, but I'd love to see it.
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Date: 2008-11-30 07:19 pm (UTC)The killer is a little old lady who cannot possibly be a physical threat to him so there is no risk in exposing her in this way or so he thinks. As it actually works out, she grabs a razor-sharp letter opener and disembowels him in mid-explanation before attempting to flee the scene. He's still getting PT for the injury books later.
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Date: 2008-11-30 09:17 pm (UTC)I think that even if a cozy takes place in which is, technically, a big city, the city needs to be brought down to scale for the sake of the story. So, to all intents and purposes, the story might as well be taking place in a small town even though it's a good-sized city.
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Date: 2008-12-01 03:27 am (UTC)Come to think of it, in the series set in small town Minnesota, the one where the lead is dating two men, one of them is the town sheriff. This has less effect on her snooping than you'd think.
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Date: 2008-12-01 12:06 pm (UTC)Would it be fair to say that she started out writing cozies and then evolved into something more complex?
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