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GALE GALLAGHER
Other works by GALE GALLAGHERPublication: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1949, New York
First edition. Author's second book of only two books. Fine, bright copy in bright dust jacket with a trace of wear to the front corners. Detective Gale Gallagher, a female skip tracer based in New York City presents a tale of following a man and finds melody, malice, and murder. The character has been identified as the first hard-boiled female detective by Frances A. DellaCava and Madeline H. Engel in their 1993 study, "Female Detectives in American Novels" (New York : Garland). An extremely scarce and historically important book.
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