Having met Vicki Hendricks, briefly, both online and actually
(at Bouchercon 2001, perhaps the most noirish of WorldCons?),
I'm sorry to say that MIAMI PURITY didn't do much for me, but
may be valuable for the reason cited, as a noirish woman's
POV novel that didn't depend (entirely) on the typical femme
fatale tropes...but certainly Cornell Woolrich, if not always
convincingly, went beyond those, too. Other examples which
come to mind are probably more arguable (Paretsky and Muller,
don't know yet if Ms. Meaker did anything relevant in
first-person...).
TM (who intends to read IGUANA LOVE eventually)
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Robison [mailto:
zspider@gte.net]
Jack Bludis wrote:
> Thanks to Ron Hinton for pointing out
Vicki
> Hendricks and mentioning her web site.
>
> http://www.vickihendricks.com/default.htm
>
> It was worth repeating.
>
> For a first-person idea of how a certain kind
of
> woman thinks, I don't think you can beat
"Miami
> Purity."
******************** You've mentioned this book before, Jack.
My curiousity finally got the best of me and I ordered it
from Amazon for 18 cents. I decided to go hog wild and I got
IGUANA LOVE, too. They billed it as porn noir. Sounds like
fun.
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