Bill C, don't feel bad. I was alive in 1958, too, although my
major reads at that time were the Little House series and the
Happy Hollisters. However, I had just discovered Nancy Drew
and therefore was about to embark on a lifelong love of crime
writing. Actually, thinking about it now, I should have put
her on my list. OK, so she's not exactly hard-boiled, but she
definitely wasn't a wimp, and I don't think I would have made
the transition to Hammett, etc., quite so smoothly without
her.
Bill, you are our cherished eminence grise of Rara Avis.
Whatever would we do without you?
Thanks to the person who mentioned Dorothy Uhnak. Christie
Opara was on the case long before Kinsey, Sharon and Kay. And
thanks to the person who brought up Gardner. Perry Mason was
a weekly ritual in our house.
Martha
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