: Despite a couple of poor examples of "hardboiled" female
detectives
: suggested in earlier postings, in my opinion there is no
such thing
: in the current definition.
You mean in the list's mostly unstated definition, or the
generally
accepted meaning of "hardboiled"? I can't think right now of
any
female detectives who fit the definition - Warshawski and
Millhone
don't - but the writers Patricia Highsmith and Dorothy B.
Hughes are
frequently mentioned.
However, the vast majority of hardboiled writing is by men
and about
men.
Bill
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William Denton | Toronto, Canada | http://www.vex.net/~buff/ | Caveat lector.
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