Additional books by the author:
Blaisdell, Ann [pseud.]. Nightmare. New York: Harper & Bros., 1961. A standalone, made into the Hammer film Die, Die, My Darling!
Egan, Lesley [pseud.]. Against the Evidence. New York: Harper & Row, 1962. The first Jesse Falkenstein mystery.
Linington, Elizabeth. Greenmask! New York: Harper & Row, 1964. The first Sgt. Maddox mystery.
Shannon, Dell [pseud.]. Knave of Hearts. New York: William Morrow, 1962. Another fine Lt. Mendoza novel.
For a complete list of Linington’s works under the name Dell Shannon, see:
Heising, Willetta L. Detecting Women 2. Dearborn, MI: Purple Moon Press, 1996.
About Linington and her writing:
Bailey, Frankie Y. “Elizabeth Linington.” In Whodunit?: A Who’s Who in Crime & Mystery, edited by Rosemary Herbert, 119. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
“Elizabeth Linington.” In Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, edited by Chris Steinbrunner and Otto Penzler, 247. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976.
King, Margaret J. “An Interview with Elizabeth Linington,” Armchair Detective 13, no. 4 (Fall 1980): 299–307.
Police procedurals:
Dove, George N. The Police Procedural. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1982.
Wall, Donald C. “Police procedurals.” In The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, edited by Rosemary Herbert, 342–46. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Other noteworthy police procedurals:
Connelly, Michael. The Black Echo. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1992. The first Harry Bosch mystery.
McBain, Ed. Cophater. New York: Permabooks, 1956. The first 87th Precinct book.
Uhnak, Dorothy. The Bait. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968. The author’s first novel, preceded by her nonfiction book, Policewoman: A Young Woman’s Initiation into the Realities of Justice (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964).
Wambaugh, Joseph. The New Centurions. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970. Wambaugh’s first book about the L.A.P.D.