Carrie,
Re your comment below:
> . . . in fact the whole "forensic" genre
> (Cornwell, Reichs, etc)
> is heavily female. I wouldn't call most of
these
> books hard-boiled in the
> sense it's used on this list . . .
Actually, without wanting to start a heated debate over
whether they're any good or not, Dr. Kay Scarpetta strikes me
as both tough and colloquial. Whether or not the list
generally accepts that definition, or agrees that Scarpetts
fits it if they do accept the definition, is another
question.
But you bring up a point I've wondered about. Why is it that
every so many coroner/medical examiners in fiction are
youngish, attractive females. To a far greater degree, I
suspect, than is true in real life.
Off-hand, there's Scarpetta, there's the female FBI agent in
X-FILES (who's also a forensic pathologist as well as a
street agent; THERE's realism!), the title character in
CROSSING JORDAN, the Baltimore coroner on HOMICIDE, the
attractive red-head on LAW & ORDER, and the drop-dead
gorgeous black woman on L&O - SPECIAL VICTIMS. Were
Quincy and Daniel Coffee the last actual males to perform
fictional autopsies?
JIM DOHERTY
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