Please note: I am quoting directly here from Joyce Saricks Reader's Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction, Second Edition, ALA 2009 pps. 201-202.
Here she is talking about the amateur detective:
..Other authors focus on the occupations or hobbies of the sleuths, usually amateur detectives, and the details-about almost everything from scrapbooking to sports-add interest and variety to the plots. Diane Mott Davidson popularized the cooking Mystery (recipes included) specialty begun by Virginia Rich with her Eugenia Potter series (The Cooking School Murders is first). Davidson's series feature caterer Goldy Bear (Catering to Nobody starts the series), put gourmet cooking and Mysteries with recipes on the map. Among amateur detectives, we have herbalists and gardeners (Susan Wittig Albert's China Bayles and Ann Ripley's Louise Eldridge), actors-including those who also create greeting cards (Harley Jane Kozak's Wollie Shelley), journalists (Edna Buchanan's Britt Montero), antiuqe and rare book dealers and scouts (John Dunning's Cliff Janeway and Sharon Fiffer's Jane Wheel), ancient and medieval physicians (Ruth Downie's Gaius Petreius Ruso and C.L. Grace's Kathryn Swinbrooke), clergy (Julia Spencer-Fleming's Clare Fergusson and Margaret Coel's Father John O'Malley), psychics (Charlaine Harris's Harper Connelly and Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs), forensic experts (Kathy Reich's Temperance Brennan in Quebec and North Carolina and Ariana Franklin's twelfth-century expert in the art of death, Adelia Aguilar), and almost any profession and hobby imaginable. In the course of the Mystery, readers learn almost as much about the profession or hobby of the detective as they do about the investigation, and for many readers, this is an important satisfaction.
Link to the book
Here she is talking about the amateur detective:
..Other authors focus on the occupations or hobbies of the sleuths, usually amateur detectives, and the details-about almost everything from scrapbooking to sports-add interest and variety to the plots. Diane Mott Davidson popularized the cooking Mystery (recipes included) specialty begun by Virginia Rich with her Eugenia Potter series (The Cooking School Murders is first). Davidson's series feature caterer Goldy Bear (Catering to Nobody starts the series), put gourmet cooking and Mysteries with recipes on the map. Among amateur detectives, we have herbalists and gardeners (Susan Wittig Albert's China Bayles and Ann Ripley's Louise Eldridge), actors-including those who also create greeting cards (Harley Jane Kozak's Wollie Shelley), journalists (Edna Buchanan's Britt Montero), antiuqe and rare book dealers and scouts (John Dunning's Cliff Janeway and Sharon Fiffer's Jane Wheel), ancient and medieval physicians (Ruth Downie's Gaius Petreius Ruso and C.L. Grace's Kathryn Swinbrooke), clergy (Julia Spencer-Fleming's Clare Fergusson and Margaret Coel's Father John O'Malley), psychics (Charlaine Harris's Harper Connelly and Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs), forensic experts (Kathy Reich's Temperance Brennan in Quebec and North Carolina and Ariana Franklin's twelfth-century expert in the art of death, Adelia Aguilar), and almost any profession and hobby imaginable. In the course of the Mystery, readers learn almost as much about the profession or hobby of the detective as they do about the investigation, and for many readers, this is an important satisfaction.
Link to the book
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