 Tribuson has not only given literary legitimacy to the crime genre in Croatian literature, he also bases novels of this genre on the everyday reality of the local community.Although his private investigator Nikola Banić, a Croatian version of Phil Marlow, is a slightly unconventional detective type because he is a jazz fan, a beer drinker, a dedicated smoker and a man burdened with many family problems, he has become very popular among the readers.Tribuson is the most popular Croatian writer of his generation.