Carrie Cashin
Created by Theodore Tinsley (1894-1974)
Attractive as sin, hardboiled as hell. One of the very first
of the hardboiled lady dicks of the pulps, and certainly the most
popular was Manhattan eye CARRIE CASHIN, who appeared
in over three dozen action-packed, fast-paced stories, starting
in the November 1937 issue of Crime Busters, and continuing
in that magazine through a name change (to Mystery Magazine in 1939) right up to her final appearance in November 1942.
In all, there were fifty issues of Crime Busters/Mystery Magazine, and Carrie appeared in all but twelve of them. A former department store detective, Carrie now runs the Cash and Carry Detective Agency, whose standard fee is a whopping $1000. Mind you, she gets the job done, never letting little things like the law get in the way. Breaking and entering, lieing to the police, even a little armed robbery or kidnapping, if that's what it took. Posing as her boss, and fronting the agency is Carrie's partner, muscular Aleck Burton, a tough, but easy-going guy (fans of Remington Steele take note!), but it's Carrie's show all the way. She's the real brains behind the show, and the reader isn't allowed to forget it. And, of course, they weren't allowed to forget she was a woman, either, frequent mentions are made of her "softly rounded beauty", and more than one cover featured an enticing glimpse of a shapely leg and a thigh holster.
The Carry Cashin tales are breathlessly-plotted, as Carrie and Aleck rush here, rush there, shooting, fighting, stumbling over bodies at a furious pace, and adding more than a few to the pile themselves. Carrie proved to be a real favorite, consistently placing first in reader polls, and her stories were almost always prominently featured on the covers.
SHORT STORIES
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
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