----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Robison" <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com>
<snip>
> The next female detective on the pulp scene was
Sarah
> Watson, the creation of D. B. McCandless. Starting
in
> 1936 and continuing through the following year,
she
> appeared several times in Detective Fiction
Weekly.
> Sarah was heavyset and middle aged. In 1937
Theodore
> Tinsley created the most successful female
pulp
> detective, Carrie Cashin. She was sleek and
beautiful
> and appeared in over 36 stories in Crime
Busters
> through 1942. The stories were voyeuristic in
nature,
> with her managing to lose a considerable amount
of
> clothing in almost every story. Will Murray wrote
of
> her, "The single most popular and promising
character
> to appear in Crime Busters." In regular polls
for
> story popularity in the magazine, Cashin
stories
> always finished in the top three.
>
<snip>
> miker
>
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I am working up series lists for Flynn's/Detective Fiction
Weekly, and I have found some interesting series. As far as I
can determine, Sarah Watson's first case was "You Stay
Dead!", in the August 31, 1935 issue of DFW. So far, I have
found a Watson story as late as the January 22, 1938 issue -
"All in the Family". I have not finished going through my
several hundred issues of DFW, and there are some issues I am
missing. I might wind up finding more Watson stories than the
seven I have identified.
Monte Herridge
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