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Scathach80	Detective Novel Trilogies	Lead	[-]
Jan 28 10 8:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Although common in science fiction and fantasy, this does not seem to happen for other genres as often, with the Quest for Karla by Le Carre and the Arnold Zeck trilogy by Rex Stout as the only examples that come to mind.
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reddog122		#1	[-]
Jan 30 10 7:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Paul Auster's metamystery "New York Trilogy" (made up of "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room") is an extreme example linked thematically rather than by a detective.
davlghry		#2	[-]
Jan 30 10 1:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Bernie Gunter mysteries March Violets, the Pale Criminal and A German Requiem form a trilogy and are collected as Berlin Noir. Written by Philip Kerr they take place in Nazi and Post-Nazi Germany and form a history of those years.
Livius1		#3	[-]
Jan 30 10 6:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Not eactly detective fiction, espionage really, but Len Deighton had a kind of trilogy of trilogies in Game, Set and Match - Hook, Line and Sinker - and Faith, Hope and Charity. http://livius1.wordpress.com/
Mattel Jones		#4	[-]
Jan 31 10 11:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	One of my favorite examples would be BLOOD ON THE MOON, BECAUSE THE NIGHT and SUICIDE HILL all written early on in the career of James Ellroy. They feature an LAPD Homicide Detective named Lloyd Hopkins. The first book is a great introduction into what makes Hopkins such a superb detective albeit troubled man, exploring events in his past, his family life (married with kids but unfaithful, and often prone to bringing unwanted and frank details of his work home with him). A murder investigation, somewhat inspired by the Black Dahlia, evolves into a hunt for a serial killer. This book was made into a movie called COP starring James Woods. The second novel has Hopkins going up against a brilliant but twisted psychiatrist who is using psycho-tropics to create a zombie cadre of criminal followers. The third novel has Hopkins near retirement set into the fray again pursuing a violent gang of armed robbers and at odds with the FBI. What lifts these books above the average series detective novels is the great writing of James Ellroy. All three novels were later published together in an omnibus edition called L.A. NOIR.
Cadaverino		#5	[-]
Feb 4 10 3:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ray Bradbury's mystery novel trilogy: Death Is a Lonely Business, A Graveyard for Lunatics, and Let's All Kill Constance. All feature the same nameless first-person narrator and his friend, the detective Crumley. The second volume was especially good, set in 1954 mostly in a movie studio and a graveyard that shares the same back wall (as Paramount does with the Hollywood Forever Cemetery). The narrator is clearly Bradbury himself, and one of the main characters is based on his longtime friend Ray Harryhausen.
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Scathach80		#6	[-]
May 16 10 11:31 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo seems to form part of a trilogy and may fit into the genre.
Scathach80		#7	[-]
Feb 9 11 6:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Mattel Jones wrote: One of my favorite examples would be BLOOD ON THE MOON, BECAUSE THE NIGHT and SUICIDE HILL all written early on in the career of James Ellroy. They feature an LAPD Homicide Detective named Lloyd Hopkins. The first book is a great introduction into what makes Hopkins such a superb detective albeit troubled man, exploring events in his past, his family life (married with kids but unfaithful, and often prone to bringing unwanted and frank details of his work home with him). A murder investigation, somewhat inspired by the Black Dahlia, evolves into a hunt for a serial killer. This book was made into a movie called COP starring James Woods. The second novel has Hopkins going up against a brilliant but twisted psychiatrist who is using psycho-tropics to create a zombie cadre of criminal followers. The third novel has Hopkins near retirement set into the fray again pursuing a violent gang of armed robbers and at odds with the FBI. What lifts these books above the average series detective novels is the great writing of James Ellroy. All three novels were later published together in an omnibus edition called L.A. NOIR. In this case, the books stand as pretty much unrelated to each other. Does Hopkins face a recurring foe or discover a connection between his opponents? Otherwise, they stand as no more a trilogy than three consecutive Perry Mason novels do.
Mattel Jones		#8	[-]
Feb 9 11 10:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well you are certainly entitled to your own point of view on what 'trilogy' means but AFAIK the three Ellroy novels I referred to in my previous post are considered a trilogy by most everyone familiar with them. Not that a Wikipedia listing is proof of anything but does indicate a similar viewpoint. http://en.wikipedia.org/w...yd_Hopkins_Trilogy Last Edited By: Mattel Jones Feb 9 11 10:19 PM. Edited 1 times.
Lawrence Fechtenberger		#9	[-]
Apr 25 12 7:29 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Scathach80 wrote: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo seems to form part of a trilogy and may fit into the genre. "The Millennium Trilogy" is only a trilogy because the author died after (in some accounts, while) writing the third novel. He intended to write more about the characters.
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