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This was an obvious pitch to the reading audience. A number of his stories take place in part in the United States, and elsewhere. Likewise many Detective stories work out of a particular beat, like San Francisco Beat and Dragnet. Local geography is necessary in many cases to follow the plot. This is more realistic than the use of fictional towns like Shopton, California in the Tom Swift Jr. adventures which were, of course, Science Fiction. It was never directly stated that Shopton was in California, but it was obvious to readers it was on the West Coast of the US and there is a Stockton in California.

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