I loved your description of Malone's recurring themes (tropes?) and I think you're spot on, but I admit I hadn't thought about them nearly as much as I've thought about Nixon's over the years, so the comparison is something I just eat up. I really need to get around to reading Malone's novels at some point--I'm sure I'd like them... Just to see how many of these themes are there--I swear I read that the character of Nora, at any rate came right out of one of his books? Much to my shame the only one I've read is Marcie's novel The Killing Club (which technically, judging by the cover, has a story by Josh Griffith but is actually written by Malone) which I actually did enjoy as a quick mystery read (and gave it to my mom when she was looking for a mystery to read, who liked it too with no connection to the show.) That was such a stupid tie in though--since I believe by the time the storyline played out on TV Dena Higley was writing it, and it barely reflected ANYTHING from the novel from what I recall (and would have been better if it had) so the whole point of the serial murders being copycat killings from Marcie's novel and that you could buy the novel were... Well what a stupid waste. But I digress....
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