Award Name Edgar Allan Poe Awards Award category Critical/Biographical Description But down these mean streets must go a man who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished or afraid.
When Raymond Chandler wrote these words in his classic The Simple Art of Murder, he drew a blueprint for the male private eyes who descend from Philip Marlowe to populate the world of crime fiction.
But what if the private eye is a woman? And what if she i.