james.doherty@gsa.gov
18 Nov 99 09:21:00 -0500
Re Mark's post
about the Hitchens:
Bert Hitchens, the
husband of mystery writer Dolores, was a
cop, specifically a
Southern Pacific Railroad Police Detective,
who collaborated
with his wife, already a well-established
crime novelist, on
five police procedurals about railroad cops.
The books were *FOB
Murder*, *End of the Line*, *One-Way
Ticket*, *The Man
Who Liked to Follow Women*, and a fifth, the
title of which
escapes me now. Though the setting was always
Southern
California, and there were recurring characters, the
protagonists
rotated from book to book, somewhat in the manner
that Ed McBain
planned for his 87th Pct. books before Steve
Carella sort of
took over and became "first among equals." I
don't believe the
Hitchens book mentioned was one of the
Railroad Police
series, so it was most likely a solo effort by
Dolores.
My grandfather, the
first member of my family to go into law
enforcment, was
also an SP Railroad detective, so the Hitchens
collaborations had
particular interest for me.
JIM DOHERTY
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