James’ Cordelia Gray and Liza Cody’s Anna Lee had already started making their own mark across the big pond.īut regardless of historical nitpicking, the McCone series is worth checking out–a major milestone in the development of the smart, tough female eye written by a woman author which for too long had remained closer to a male-created fantasy cartoon than any woman you’d ever meet in real life. It should be pointed, however, that by the time people were starting to notice Sharon, P.D. Warshawski, Laura Lippmann’s Tess Monaghan and about a zillion other feisty American female gumshoes. Generally credited with being the first liberated female private detective of the modern era, Marcia Muller’s SHARON McCONE paved the way for the subsequentsuccess of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, Sara Paretsky’s V.I.
“Marcia Muller is the founding mother of the contemporary female hard-boiled private eye.”
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