I first encountered Ruth Chessman's work when browsing back issues of Manhunt magazine–and I was immediately intrigued. Manhunt was a noir/hardboiled digest-sized mystery magazine, and female bylines were uncommon. A quick check showed that she also published stories in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine as well as a 1965 middle-grade novel called «Bound for Freedom,» which was adapted as a movie.<P> She must have instilled her love of crime writing in her family, since her...
