Word: newspaperwoman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar riffraff. The effect is to scatter the novel's focus so that a complete, fully plotted detective story about a crooked Texas Ranger can be misplaced, almost unnoticed, in one , corner. A dominant central figure might hold all of this together, but the novel's heroine, Texas newspaperwoman Betsy Throckmorton, is something less than the gale-force wind that is needed, and her role becomes that of an agreeable mistress of ceremonies...