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.Read about another novel on the list.
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.
--Marshal Zeringue
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