Hide and Seek (Starsky & Hutch story)
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Hide and Seek |
| Author(s): | Jan Lindner |
| Date(s): | 1980 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Starsky & Hutch |
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Hide and Seek is a gen Starsky & Hutch story by Jan Lindner.
It is in One Shot #1.
Summary from Black Bean Soup: "'Hide & Seek,' a post-Sweet Revenge story in which Starsky takes on his first case after recovering from Gunther's assassination attempt, trying to catch a thief who escapes the scene of the crime on a motorcycle."
Reactions and Reviews
1980
Most polished of the four major stories is the editor’s own ‘Hide and Seek.’ In style and construction, it’s exactly the kind of competent-or-better work one expects from Lindner. But… there are two interwoven plots here… the first is logical, meticulously out and ultimately boring. The second – the real story—is obscured under police procedural, so that the characters’ problems never genuinely engage the reader’s emotions… This Starsky and hutch are curiously distant from themselves and each other, form without substance. If this is intentional, the awareness of loss that would have given the characters life and depth is missing. If it is not, one can only regret that the author of Bomb Scare is herself content with the gestures: the power is lacking. [1]
‘Hide and Seek,’ on the other hand, is perfectly plain. In fact, too plain, too easy. In this post-Sweet Revenge walk, the ostensible story is a robbery investigation, and the real plot is how Hutch and Starsky return to a normal working relationship. But the first is action without much spirit, and the second emotion without context, plus the connections between the two seem superficial. The characters seemed tired, possibly the effect Lindner intended, but the story disappointed me. I had expected a tougher workout. Suspension of disbelief is the grace a writer asks of a reader to accept a few stretchers for the sake of the story. Some readers will swallow some postulates less readily than others, a caveat for the writer. [2]
1984
Anchoring ONE SHOT is Lindner's "Hide and Seek," an episodic caper detailing the relationship between a hit 'em and run motorcycle bandit and his victims, who appear more willing to write off the loss than aid the police in tracking him down, When someone does come forward, the promised police protection fails to prevent another attack, leaving SfiH even more reluctant witnesses, few clues, and a wild man still on the loose. The supercops are temporarily shelved, as our boys are forced to solve the case by painstakingly following leads, investigating dead ends, putting 2+2 together to make 5, and good old-fashioned legwork.[3]