Re: RARA-AVIS: Hard-Boiled Women Authors and Genre Boundaries

Mario Taboada (matrxtech@sprintmail.com)
Sun, 09 Aug 1998 16:28:34 -0500 I just realized that no-one has mentioned Craig Rice yet. She was a true
pulpster from the old days. Not too much in print, I presume, but a
legacy that deserves some "rediscovery".

Another good author who seems forgotten these days is Dell Shannon. I
recently read her 1982 "The Motive on Record" featuring Lt. Luis Mendoza
of the LAPD - an entertaining and very well written procedural in a
realistic style. According to the dust jacket this is the thirty-third
entry in what was a very long-running Mendoza series, though this is my
first sampling of it. She's an author to keep in mind, and one who was
doing it long before the revolution that brought so many female writers
into the field of mystery fiction.

Regards,

MT
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