Doug Bassett wrote: Is this the one which uses lesbianism as
a plot point? If so, I remember liking it, but thinking that
it was one of those relatively rare books who's impact has
been lost as time has marched forward. It must've been a
killer ending when it first came out, though.
******************** Yup. The murderer turns out to be a girl
pretending to be a guy. It's telegraphed earlier when Pine
finds the murderer with a known lesbian in her bedroom. I
found it kind of amusing that they weren't just lesbians,
they were Lesbians. Haha. Probably a nod to the isle of
Lesbos, where they all originated from.
I think you're right about the lesbian theme being a
groundbreaker for hardboiled in 1949. Vin Packer's SPRING
FIRE didn't come out until 1952, and Zimet's STRANGE SISTERS,
a nonfiction account of lesbian pulp fiction art, is
subtitled with the dates 1949-1969.
Sorry you didn't like CUTTER AND BONE. I'll admit that maybe
the plot wasn't the best, but I thought the writing was some
of the sharpest I'd come across for a while.
miker
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