Female Authors

There is a widespread misconception that all Pulp Fiction authors were male.

Ring Twice For Laura by Vera Caspary (1899-1987) is the 1942 serialized novel that would become famous as the 1944 Otto Preminger movie ‘Laura.’ Serialized over seven weeks in Collier’s Weekly Magazine, it is the story of a New York City career woman mistakenly thought murdered in her own apartment and the three men most affected: her narcissistic former lover, her philandering fiancee, and the hardboiled detective assigned to investigate her case.

The Shadows and Other Stories by Leigh Brackett
The Shadows (1952), Quest of the Starhope (1949), RUNAWAY (1954)