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". . . I don’t know if there are other books that focus on women in private investigation. If there are, I’ve not run across them. A Suitable Job for a Woman is a wonderful read, a concise and eye-opening trek through the competence, humor and humanity of women." -Nevada Barr
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“But down these mean streets must go a man who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished or afraid.” When Raymond Chandler wrote these words in his classic The Simple Art of Murder, he drew a blueprint for the male private eyes who descend from Philip Marlowe to populate the world of crime fiction.
But what if the private eye is a woman? And what if she is not a character in a novel but a real, working investigator testing not only the meanness but the absurdity of life on seamy streets? Who will tell her story?
Enter Manchester’s Val McDermid, herself a skilled writer of the P.I. novel but for years a professional journalist. In an effort to plumb the real world of working women—and throw new light on her own craft—she has interviewed women private eyes from both sides of the Atlantic and assembled their stories with an eye for the absurd and a keen grasp of the gritty nuts and bolts of the profession.
As fascinating as fiction, A Suitable Job for a Woman is, in the words of Edgar-winning author Nevada Barr, “a concise and eye-opening trek through the competence, humor, and humanity of women.”
". . . I don’t know if there are other books that focus on women in private investigation. If there are, I’ve not run across them. A Suitable Job for a Woman is a wonderful read, a concise and eye-opening trek through the competence, humor and humanity of women." -Nevada Barr
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“But down these mean streets must go a man who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished or afraid.” When Raymond Chandler wrote these words in his classic The Simple Art of Murder, he drew a blueprint for the male private eyes who descend from Philip Marlowe to populate the world of crime fiction.
But what if the private eye is a woman? And what if she is not a character in a novel but a real, working investigator testing not only the meanness but the absurdity of life on seamy streets? Who will tell her story?
Enter Manchester’s Val McDermid, herself a skilled writer of the P.I. novel but for years a professional journalist. In an effort to plumb the real world of working women—and throw new light on her own craft—she has interviewed women private eyes from both sides of the Atlantic and assembled their stories with an eye for the absurd and a keen grasp of the gritty nuts and bolts of the profession.
As fascinating as fiction, A Suitable Job for a Woman is, in the words of Edgar-winning author Nevada Barr, “a concise and eye-opening trek through the competence, humor, and humanity of women.”
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- The Last Temptation: A Novel by Val McDermid in Front Matter
- A Place of Execution by Val McDermid in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Martin Priestman in Back Matter
- The Torment of Others: A Novel (Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Mysteries) by Val McDermid in Front Matter