On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Steven Brust wrote: > > One thumb down - I found it slight, repetitive, and shapeless. > > > > Just started into David Simon's _Homicide_ - about detectives in > > Baltimore. Some of the dialogue has a definite Jhereg feel. > > > > "Homicde" about detectives in Baltimore? Is that the book the TV show was > based on? That's correct. An interesting claim from the book - the Baltimore police dept was racist and exclusionary until after the Watts riots, when some people started realizing that was unsustainable.