They are quite moral in a strange kind of way.
Fearsome and ferocious foes of the bad guys yet faithful friends to CP. They’ll kill anyone for him, which is nice.
I read Every Dead Thing first. It helps, of course, because then you know where Bird is coming from. From an American point of view, is there anything at all about the locations that don’t feel rightl?
Martha Grimes is an American and her Richard Jury/Melrose Plant, with one exception, take place in the U.K.
The British SF author Eric Frank Russell set his novel *Sinister Barriers *in the U.S. Some of his other work, like “Legwork,” also employs American settings.
I know one of his books took place in Canada (mostly on The Canadian, in fact), but I can’t think of any that took place in the U.S.
Not a damn thing. I don’t know how he does it.
Elizabeth George has written a long series of detective novels (real doorstops!) about Inspector Lynley and his sidekick Barbara Havers, he is an English Lord who gave up the soft life for the police. Elizabeth George is an American, but you would never know it in a million years.
Zadie Smith’s On Beauty is set in the US (and suffers for it, since she gets everything from American speech patterns to higher education distractingly wrong).
Dick Francis’ *Blood Sport *is (mostly) set in the USA. I’ve a feeling there are others but I can’t think of them at the moment :smack: After all he lived in Florida for years.
Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series all set in the US.
William Thackeray wrote a couple of novels set entirely in the US: The Newcomes and The Virginian (the latter is not the book the later movie and TV series was based on, that’s one of the same title by the American author Owen Wister.)
Much of Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit takes place in America. (The Americans were far from happy with it as it satirises them mercilessly).
Wodehouse also had several Mulliner stories set in Hollywood. There were a few golf stories set in the US. There was a Psmith novel, I think Psmith, Journalist, set in the US, possibly New York. IIRC, Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin was also set in Hollywood.
The book set on the Canadian is The Edge.
The last section of The Danger is set in America.
Alistair Maclean had several novels set in America: * Fear is the Key, The Golden Gate, Goodbye,California, Breakheart Pass, *and Seawitch.
Len Deighton had a novel set in Los Angeles: Violent Ward.
For American books set in Britain, there’s the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. The second half of the book has scenes set in both London and Midlothian, Scotland.
Jeffery Archers Kane and Able, Prodigal Daughter, Shall we tell the President anjd a few others are set in the states.
Elizabeth George sets her novels in the UK and does a pretty good job of it.
But one sublime error was a UK police station where obviously, everyone is offered tea and biscuits. In her rendering, the person was offered tea and Oreos.
These were not, at that time, available in the UK.