Jim
Thanks for the correction and the additional comments. This
is EXACTLY what we (Victor, Bill and I) need, and that's
feedback to fix up and add to what we've already found out
about these authors. The way I look at it, for each one of
them, there's always a good reason why they shouldn't be
forgotten.
I'll add this as a Footnote to the checklist right away. http://www.mysteryfile.com/ZiffDavis/Fingerprint.html
Best
Steve
At 10:58 AM 3/11/2006, you wrote:
>Great article, Steve. One correction,
however.
>Dolores Hitchens's husband, Bert, wasn't a
railroad
>superintendant. He was a railroad
DETECTIVE.
>Specifically, he was an investigator for the
Southern
>Pacific Railroad Police (which, coincidentally,
was
>the same department my grandfather, the first
member
>of my family to go into law enforcement, worked
for).
>
>The five novels she collaborated on with her
husband
>were police procedurals about a squad of railroad
cops
>in LA. Each book put on a different cop or set
of
>cops in the lead. They'd recede into supporting
roles
>in other books in the series. Debuting a year
before
>McBain's first 87th Precinct book, they
actually
>anticipate his concept of a "corporate
hero."
>
>Indeed, they actually carry that concept to
fuller
>fruition, since, in the 87th Precinct series,
Steve
>Carella very quickly became "first among
equals,"
>while, in the Hitchens's railroad police series,
no
>one character ever rose to that level of
prominence.
>
>JIM DOHERTY
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