Friday's "Forgotten" Books:

In 1986, St. Martin's published an anthology edited by Bernard A. Drew with the full title of Hard-Boiled Dames: A Brass-Knuckled Anthology of the Toughest Women From the Classic Pulps. Drew provided the introduction, and Marcia Muller (author of her own tough-broad protagonist, Sharon McCone) added a preface. The 15 stories included were reproduced from the original magazines in double columns on each page, complete with the original campy illustrations and advertisements, as well as biographical notes on the writers.

The offerings include Eugene Thomas's Vivian Legrand in "The Lady From Hell," a woman who works out of Shanghai and pits herself against both the chief of the British Secret Service in the Far East and the underworld leader of Manila; Richard Sale's Dinah Mason in "Double Trouble," featuring the spunky girlfriend of Daffy Dill, "the Whirlwind Reporter for the New York Chronicle"; C.B. Yorke's ruthless Queen Sue Carlton, featured in "Snowbound"; the hard punching Violet McDade, created by Cleve F. Adams; and international adventurer Rosita Storey, from the pen of Hulbert Footner.

The roll call of investigators, crooks, gun molls, and reporters who appeared as ongoing series characters in the classic pulp magazines of the 1930's included in the anthology are below:

 

• Carrie Cashin in "Riddle in Silk" / by Theodore Tinsley
  
• Sarah Watson in "Cash or Credit" / by D.B. McCandless 
• Trixie Meehan in "The Deadly Orchid" / by T.T. Flynn
• Grace Culver in "Hit the Baby" / by Roswell Brown 
• Violet McDate in "Flowers for Violet" / by Cleve F. Adams 
• Patricia Seaward in "Murder by Mail" / by Frederick Nebel
• The Domino Lady in "The Domino Lady Doubles Back" / by Lars Anderson 
• Sue McEwen in "Fingers of fear" / by Frederick C. Davis
• Katie Blayne in "The Duchess Pulls a Fast One" / by Whitman Chambers 
• Dinah Mason in "Double Trouble" / by Richard Sale 
• Ivy Trask in "Death to the Hunter" / by Judson P. Philips 
• Dizzy Malone in "The Jane from Hell's Kitchen" / by Perry Paul 
• Queen Sue Carlton in "Snowbound" / by C.B. Yorke
• Vivian Legrand in "The Day from Hell : the Episode of the Secret Service Blackmail" / by Eugene Thomas 
• Rosita Story in"Wolves of Monte Carlo" / by Hulbert Footner