This is the first installment of a multi-part series designed to introduce readers (or remind those already familiar) with the essential long-running series for each decade of the later 20th and early 21st centuries.
The 1960s were a tumultuous decade, and the crime fiction of the time reflected the vast changes in attitudes and society. Crime series provide us with a perfect opportunity to track those changes over time, as protagonists evolve and their attitudes towards both crimes and setting continue to move with the times. The 1960s, with its new openness, vast marches, and sexual and political liberation, feels like the opposite of today, where we’ve closed ourselves off even from members of our own families to keep them safe, and find ourselves jealous of orderly countries no matter their methods of control, but that’s perhaps what also makes it a perfect decade to immerse ourselves within. Someday, life will be this open again. And detectives will find it just as confusing.
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