I think Leigh Brackett appeared on one of the top fives.
She's a woman HB writer well worth checking out. Although she
didn't write a whole lot in the genre, it was very, very
good.
There have been occasional debates on the list about whether
contemporary female PI series qualify as hardboiled, whether
or not their extended families (real or, usually, surrogate)
and/or recognition of their feelings (things just as evident
in many contemporary male PI writers from Parker to Vachss)
disqualify them. I don't think they do. They may be medium
boiled, but I like the series by Karen Kijewski, Linda Barnes
and the first several Sara Paretskys. I never could read
Grafton. I also particularly like the recent series by SJ
Rozan about a male white private eye and his female Chinese
sometime-partner; one is the first person narrator of one
book, the other the next. The latest paperback in the series
is near the top of my to-be-read pile.
Mark
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