The Mystery Lady, Inc. wrote: > My fantasy is that I would be able to find more hardboiled writers that > are female to balance the great male ones. I only know of Patricia > Highsmith. I don´t know for sure if any of these strictly qualify for the hardboilded genre, but you might want to try - Sara Paretsky for her V.I. Warshawski novels - Patricia Cornwell (at least the first few novels) - Val McDermid´s "The Mermaids Singing" ('95 CWA Gold Dagger winner) - Minette Walters Ciao, -- Thomas Baetzler, thb@regioservice.de, thb@spectre.ka.sub.org <A HREF="http://home.pages.de/~thb/">thb's Homepage</A> - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca