"Also, I can't help noticing that Dalgliesh has been detecting for more than forty years now, and seems to have stopped aging somewhere along the way. His adoring minions seem to partake in the same slowing to a lesser extent, and don't notice anything odd, but it's hard on the suspension of disbelief. It gets really jarring when he reminisces about an obviously pre-war childhood."
Ah, the comic book super-hero syndrome. Perhaps she ought to try the patented DC solution - write a book where Dalgliesh and his team are caught in a timewarp and suddenly their lives are totally revamped and they can start again. (There's a moment in 'Voyage' where that happens and you wonder just how old Nelson is supposed to be if he remembers someone who disappeared at the end of WWW2 as a colleague when there they are in the 1980s. 'Deadly Cloud' is it?)
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Date: 2006-03-28 11:58 am (UTC)Ah, the comic book super-hero syndrome. Perhaps she ought to try the patented DC solution - write a book where Dalgliesh and his team are caught in a timewarp and suddenly their lives are totally revamped and they can start again. (There's a moment in 'Voyage' where that happens and you wonder just how old Nelson is supposed to be if he remembers someone who disappeared at the end of WWW2 as a colleague when there they are in the 1980s. 'Deadly Cloud' is it?)