Books
November, 1985
Women Crimebusters: According to Raymond Chandler, the detective story came of age when Dashiell Hammett took murder out of the parlor and dropped it into the streets. What neither Chandler nor Hammett could have foreseen was that tough guys would have to make room on those streets for sleuths wearing mascara on their private eyes. Agatha Christie's extremely popular Miss Marple (whom Dodd, Mead celebrates this month with a profile by Anne Hart, The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple, and Miss M...
