Award Name Edgar Allan Poe Awards Award category Critical/Biographical Description "But down these mean streets must go a man who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished or afraid".
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"..
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. novel but for years a professional journalist.
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.
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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.
Award Name Edgar Allan Poe Awards Award category Critical/Biographical Description "But down these mean streets must go a man who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished or afraid"
