Mention should certainly be made of retired NYC Transit
Police Detective Dorothy Uhnak. Preceding Joseph Wambaugh,
William Caunitz, Gerald Petievitch, and other male lawmen
who've become crime novelists by several years, she was, I
believe, the very first female police officer to depict the
travails of wmen law enofrcement officers in fiction. I
regard *The Bait*, her Edgar-winner, as one of the best NYPD
novels ever written. Her
*Law & Order*, her first NY *Times* best-seller, smoothly
combined the police procedural with the multi-generational
family saga. Her first book
*Policewoman* was a non-fiction autobiography detailing her
own career in law enforcement.
Like Edna Buchanan, she lived what she writes about.
JIM DOHERTY
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