European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ii a the chess so p4sss5.1sws8wssa��?�female sleuths muscling in on males territory Mary Campbell associated press s Hook. Be Grafton recalls scheming in the night about a Way to kill one of her two sex husbands. After sliced carefully worked it out she realized a i knew i could never pull it off. I thought a ill just put it in a Grafton did no to want to write a psychological novel in which the Reader identifies with a killer. So she created somebody to foil her own plot. A i gave the Reader somebody virtuous to identify with the Wisest move i Ever made in my  thus was born Kinsey Millhone one of a new Breed of professional private investigators who have emerged in the Long evolution of the a whodunit a women to stand Sho filder to shoulder with Dashiell Hammett a Sam Spade Raymond chandlery a Phillip Marlow and Ross Macdonald a Lou Archer. Six months before Kinsey Mill once a first appearance in a a is for Alibi a private Eye . Victoria Warshawski had solved her first Case in Sara Paretsky so indemnity  Paretsky was working full time As a manager at r an insurance company when she started working Xyth the novel which was published in 1979. A women were making it into the ranks of management a she says. A there were people who pushed us As hard As they could to Sec if wed crack. I wanted a woman who was experiencing what i and my friends were a being challenged on her right to do the Job. She was a Pioneer being called an aggressive Bitch. But she was  a third private investigator Carlota Carlyle was born after her creator Linda Barnes had written four books about Amateur Sleuth Michael Sprague. / neither Sai a Paretsky nor her private Eye is afraid to take on a Challenge. A a in a always wanted to write about a woman. P.i.,�?� Barnes says. A was soon As i finished the first Sprague in 1981,1 talked to my editor about doing a woman. He told me there a no Market for hard boiled women. Since i done to write for posthumous glory figured i would continue with  but after a Short Story featuring Carlotta a a 6-foot, redheaded part time cabbie and part time private Eye a proved to be a hit three novels a followed. These three have been joined by other women writers including Susan Kelly Jane Langton Katherine Hall Page and Susan Conant in the growing Field of creators of female investigators. There have always been female detectives in modern literature such As Agatha Christie a miss Marple. But they have been almost without cd cup Tion genteel amateurs. The new ones on the other hand arc professionals. In the Case of Grafton Paretsky and Barnes each of their creations is divorced each of the writers is married. All write in the first person. The Point of View mind and personality the read or gets to know is the private eyes and to some extent the writers. Paretsky who was born in Iowa and grew up in. Nebraska lives in Chicago. Her husband Calls her a pit Bull. She has had . Tangle with corruption in Chicago polities great lakes shipping malpractice the roman Catholic Church and Vatican Bank. A a every Day i try to make myself take on the things i m afraid of. . Can do it in a Way that i can to she said. A i suppose it is that kind of integrity and passion that matter most to  in contrast to Paretsky a big issues Grafton says her stories a come out of an instance in the family dynamic. I use a Small Canvas the human heart. I m interested in the dark Side of human nature what it is that makes us kill each other instead of going into therapy As we  a a Grafton lives in Santa Barbara calif., and her Kinsey in Santa Teresa the name Macdonald coined for Santa Barbara. There a a lot of Barnes in Carlotta Carlyle. Quot she a a de Troiter like me a she says. A a we be both lived in the Boston area More than 20 years. She has red hair. I always aspired to red hair. We Wear the same shoe size. And she has my grandmother. Her half Irish Side a combination that has always interested me is fiction. A Carlotta gives me a Chance to Deal with issues in a interested in. I get to investigate through my investigator different ways of looking at things. And i also get to say things through her that i would never say As  All three say their private eyes Are braver than they Are. All three  there arc certain things their female sleuths can do that their male counterparts can to such As Surprise suspects who never expect to be trailed by a woman demonstrate More patience for paperwork and solve some crimes without As much violence. But they admit there arc drawbacks. Says Barnes a a in be talked to a lot of real private eyes. The men say women can to Pec in a Container while staking out somebody in a car.�?�. 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