By the way Amy, you mentioned Whip Hand by Sanders. You do
know it was co-written by Charles Willeford, right?
Also, thought of another (sorta) female protagonist book --
Lawrence Block's Girl with a Long Green Heart, also recently
reprinted by Hard Case Crime. She's not the main character,
the two con men partners are, but she plays a very important
role. Which kind of leads to a question: Where are you
drawing the line for how big a role the woman must play? For
instance, Hard Case's recent Charles Williams book, A Touch
of Death, revolves around an uneasy partnership between a man
and a woman. It strikes me that, to varying degrees, that
relationship often applies to noir, between a man and the
femme fatale he lusts after.
Mark
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