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Sheriff Joe Bain
Sheriff Joe Bain is the protagonist of a short series, prematurely abandoned, of crime-investigation mysteries by the American author Jack Vance, better known for his science fiction novels. The series as published comprises ''The Fox Valley Murders'' (1966) and ''The Pleasant Grove Murders'' (1967). An unfinished third novel exists. The milieu for the books is San Rodrigo County, a fictitious precinct in rural California, the state Vance lived in for most of his life.
==Style and characters==
Though the murder mystery in each novel is plotted with Vance’s customary ingenuity, the real pleasure in these books is the spare, unembellished style (compared to the Baroque prose of his SF fantasies, Vance’s earth-bound thrillers cultivate a deadpan narrative idiom), the light touch of Vance's habitually pervasive irony, the minute and affectionate observation of rural and small-town California, and the interaction of a rich gallery of characters. The central character is the policeman Joe Bain, who must run for sheriff to succeed his corrupt and lackadaisical boss, Sheriff "Cooch" Cuchinello throughout ''The Fox River Murders'' and keep an eye toward his reelection in the subsequent
novel(s). Bain's wife ran off shortly after the birth of their daughter Miranda, who's in high school at the time of these novels, and who he's raised with the help of his mother Miriam. Typically for a Vance protagonist he is good at his job, sparing of speech, generally amiable and not very impressible. He's a graduate of the Chapman Institute of Criminology in North Hollywood and often puts what he learned there to good use. He is surrounded by characters more flamboyant, ambitious, egotistical and (in their own estimation) much cleverer than he. Though the narrative approach is generally ‘realistic’, lacking the fantastic invention of Vance’s SF, he occasionally teases the boundaries of the ‘detective novel’ genre, as with the character of Luna with whom Bain has a mild flirtation in ''The Pleasant Grove Murders'': a New Age real estate agent who claims to be really a visitor from the planet Arthemisia, with which she communicates by means of a number of bowls of water filled to various levels.
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