Last month, Fran wrote and asked for help finding the following author and/or mystery book series:
“A while back I read a couple of books that I’d like to find again. The books were set in San Francisco and were in the late 1800s or early 1900. The main character was a woman who had trained as an attorney and was trying to make it in the male dominated world of law – against her parents’ wishes.
Can you help?
Fran”
If you think you might know who the author of this series is, or the name of the mystery series, please post a comment. Thank you!
hollins says
Could it be Shirley Tallman? I googled “san fransciso mystery woman lawyer” and found a possibility.
See http://shirleytallman.com/books.cfm for more information. I have never read her books, so I am only guessing.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thanks, hollins! Shirley Tallman certainly looks like she could be the author.
Julia says
Maybe this?
http://www.amazon.com/Cliff-House-Strangler-Woolson-Mysteries/dp/0312357567
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thanks, Julia. It looks like all three of you (hollins, Cora, and you) came up with exactly the same author.
Cora says
I think the author Fran is looking for may be Shirley Tallman.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thank you, Cora, I believe Shirley Tallman could be exactly who Fran is looking for. I know, from past experience, that it is mighty frustrating not being able to remember a favorite author…
Andie says
I think the series to which she is referring is the one by Dianne Day.
Danna, you have her listed in the alphabetical file.
The first is The Strange Files of Fremont Jones.
They are excellent mysteries.
Andie says
Correction!
Sorry, I did not notice the “Attorney” requirement.
Fremont Jones is a young woman from a wealthy Boston family who refuses to conform to the strictures of that very conventional and straight-laced society and moves to San Francisco to get out from under the thumb of her father. She takes up type-writing as a profession and solves mysteries.
She is unconventional and very much ahead of her time.
But she is not an attorney.
marja says
Andie,
I was thinking of exactly the same mysteries – no wonder I couldn’t remember anything about her being an attorney!
She was, as they quaintly called the profession in those days, a “Type-writer.”
Danna - cozy mystery list says
It looks like at least three of us thought about Freemont Jones, Marja…
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Andie, at first I thought about Fremont Jones, also.
Shirley says
Danna the author that Fran was looking is one of my many favorites…..Author is Shirley Tallman……
She was an Attorney Sleuth in San Franciso in the late 1800’s; in a mystery series….
The four that came out
1. Murder on Nob Hill 2007
2. The Russian Mob Hill
3. The Cliff House Strangler
4. Scandal on Rincon Hill 2010
5. Death on Telegraph Hill….comes out 11/2/12..I think!
or December through Amazon….smile.
P.s. Each of the books are hardcover.
Hope this helps Fran. Smile
I think she writes wonderful stories….and I wish could write them faster………..but these I keep and read once a year or so……usually this way I forget who did it…. such entertainment for an old or a new reader…grin
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thanks, Shirley, for letting us know the books in Shirley Tallman’s mystery series.
Julia says
Hmm, looks like her books aren’t out in Kindle format (not yet, anyway), but they are available on audible.com. I’ll have to check them out, because they sound very interesting.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Julia, thanks for the audible.com information. My husband and I have belonged to that for years, and I’m always looking for authors to follow.
Julia says
I stand corrected – you can get them for Kindle (I was just reading the table wrong).
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thanks for the info, Julia.