Filling in the blanks

The subject of today's blogg is reading books in a series in the wrong order. I found one of Charles McCarry's books at the library (reading a Swedish translation of a book written in English is sometimes the only way to still one's curiousity). The book - "The tears of autumn" - was one in a long line of conspiracy theories about Kennedy's murder in Dallas, November 1963. This is an event I remember well - but was too young to keep up with all the various theories. Charles McCarry blamed the Vietnamese. True or not doesn't matter, the book was fun to read. But (and here is the point about reading books in the wrong order), I found numerous errors. David Patchen who is Paul Christopher's friend is described as being newly divorced. In another book (1991) David's loving and life long relationship with a Quaker woman is described in detail. The time line concerning Paul's marriage to Cathy seems also strange. But I guess none of that really matters. The other book out of order was Jodi Compton's "The 37th Hour". Here was the story about how Sarah's husband Mike Shiloh landed in jail and about the murder of her friend's daughter. I didn't find any discrepancies - but then again the time between books (only a year) for Compton was much less than for McCarry (over 15 years).