One of my favorite authors is Robert Crais, who writes a series of
detective novels starring a private eye named Elvis Cole. (He also
writes thrillers that are unrelated to (and not as good as) the Elvis
Cole novels, one of which, Hostage, was recently made into
a Bruce Willis movie.) If you like mysteries, I definitely recommend
them. (
tomthedog, I think you in particular would like
them. Just a hunch.)
Anyway, I've recently been re-reading the Elvis Cole novels. Last night
I finished the ninth novel in the series, The Last
Detective; this morning I started the tenth, The Forgotten
Man. I hadn't gone very far before I ran into what appears to be
a fairly flagrant continuity error. I don't want to go into much
detail, in case anyone is inspired by my recommendation to read the
books, but at the end of The Last Detective, something
happens that involves "the governments of Sierra Leone, Angola, and El
Salvador" (pg. 334 of the Ballantine paperback edition). But in
The Forgotten Man, Cole mentions the events of the previous
book but says that the parties involved were "the governments of Sierra
Leone and Colombia … along with—get this—the United
Nations" (pg. 27 of the Ballantine paperback edition). Shocking!
Bonus content for reading this far! Here are some of my favorite mystery writers:
- Robert Arthur and all the other authors who contributed to the Three Investigators series
- Lawrence Block
- Max Allan Collins
- Robert Crais
- Joseph Finder
- Tony Hillerman
- Julia Spenser-Fleming
- Donald E. Westlake
Add your favorites in the comments.
