George,
Re your post below:
> . . . I'm interested in earlier woman h-b
> writers--the true female pioneers in the field,
so
> to
> speak. Any suggestions on who I might seek out
as
> belonging to this group?
The obvious one is Leigh Brackett, who co-wrote the script
fot THE BIG SLEEP and wrote a great PI novel called NO GOOD
FROM A CORPSE.
Another good one is Dolores Hitchens. A very versatile
writer, she wrote cozies under her maiden name, D.B. Olsen.
Under her married name she wrote two very good PI novels
about a character named Jim Sader, SLEEP WITH SLANDER and
another one with the word "Sleep" in the title. She also
wrote a good series of police procedurals in collaboration
with her husband, Bert Hitchens, who was a cop himself.
NO GOOD FROM A CORPSE, the Sader novels, and the Hitchens'
collaborative cop novels are all set in the LA area, so they
tie in with this month's theme.
JIM DOHERTY
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