The Borrowed Detective
Is it the same character?
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The Borrowed Detective
A novelist dies halfway through a detective series. Another writer continues it. Readers say the detective behaves just as he always did.
Is it the same character?
Then ask
- Could the new writer make the character more faithful than the creator did?
- Who gets to decide when the detective stops being himself?
The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.