Always the Outsider.

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      Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) investigates an impossible murder in Parris's Treachery (Pegasus Crime, Dec.; reviewed on p. 56). But all the best detective heroes are outsiders - it allows them to observe with a clearer eye, and Bruno has allowed me to make some oblique commentary on the English and the way we treat foreigners - which, at the present time, is often not a lot more enlightened than it was in the 16th century. We hear a lot about the glories of Elizabeth's reign - the colonization of the New World, the defeat of the Spanish Armada - and because the Church of England has lasted for over 400 years, it feels inevitable. [Extracted from the article]
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