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Some critics point back to The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins as an early novel describing police work at Scotland Yard
In addition to being a masterful precursor to the buddy cop movies and police procedurals popular today, Stray Dog is also a complex genre film that examines the plight of soldiers returning home to post-war Japan.
Susan L. Dorff is a professor of French at Boston University