She Wrote the First Lady Cop/PI Novels

Dorothy Uhnak’s fourteen years as a twice-decorated veteran of the New York City Transit Police (1953-67) provided her a unique insider’s view to write one nonfiction and nine fiction crime books. Policewoman (1964), written while she was still in uniform, is a memoir synthesizing her professional experiences. Today such a title might be put under the creative nonfiction category. Saturday Review labeled it a “fine semi-documentary” that “holds the reader’s attention throughout.” Crisply told, richly anecdotal, and unsentimentally frank, this was for me a solid debut book. It also laid the foundation for her subsequent fiction titles, what George N. Dove has called “the seeds of much of her fiction.”

To read the rest, please go to my article and interview with the late, great Dorothy Uhnak at Steve Lewis's Mysteryfile Weblog:
http://tiny.cc/2xud1