Saturday, August 21, 2010

Ten favorite San Francisco-backdropped crime novels

Janet Rudolph is the organizer of Mystery Readers International and the editor of Mystery Readers Journal. She also blogs at Mystery Fanfare.

She named her ten favorite San Francisco-backdropped crime novels for The Rap Sheet. One title on the list:
Death and Taxes (1941), by David Dodge.

It stars James “Whit” Whitney, a tax accountant turned detective in 1940s San Francisco. Dodge was an excellent writer with a real sense of the city. He actually made taxes and tax investigation exciting.
Read about another novel on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue