""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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