I don't know what Boucher meant. I guess it was the company I
kept, being the only female Gold Medal writer in the
beginning. Boucher himself wrote me suggesting I do The Evil
Friendship. It was based on the real New Zealand
case(matricide) Parker-Hulme. Many years later Hulme was
released and she writes today very well as Anne Perry.
Boucher knew my interest in true crime and was inspired to
make the suggestion because of a book I did called Whisper
His Sin (not my choice of title) which was a true story based
on the Freden/Wepman cyanide cocktail matricide...Probably
Boucher meant my subject matter was more "tough guy: than the
average female writer. Vin Packer
Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:Ms Meaker,
> In an essay about the Vin Packer novels in MURDER
OFF
> THE RACK, Jon Breen notes that after reading THE
EVIL
> FRIENDSHIP, Anthony Boucher said that you were
as
> hardboiled as the best of them.
>
> I usually think of "tough guy" novels when
hardboiled
> is referred to, but in THE EVIL FRIENDSHIP,
THE
> DAMNATION OF ADAM BLESSING, COME DESTROY ME,
AND
> SPRING FIRE, the emphasis seems to be on
characters
> that are decidedly not tough. What do you
think
> Boucher meant by calling your books
hardboiled?
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