Gale Gallagher
Created by Gale Gallagher (pseudonym
of Will Oursler(1913-1985) and Margaret Scott)
Fast-talking skip tracer/private eye GALE GALLAGHER heads the Acme Investigating Bureau of New York City in two well-written books in the late forties.
Gallagher is arguably the missing link between the good girl
sleuths of the past and the tougher modern female P.I.s of the
present. In the "tag end" of her twenties, she's smart,
well-dressed, and seems pretty self-assured and independent for
that era. She goes to bars and jazz clubs alone, and enjoys the
company of several men. She has a license to carry, though she
rarely does, but she speaks with a dry wit and a "low-key
toughness" that is all-together believable.
Gale Gallagher was the pseudonym of married couple Margaret Scott
and Will Oursler. Besides co-creating Gallagher, Oursler is probably
best-known in hard-boiled circles for editing the 1951 collection
of hard-boiled pulp tales As
Tough As They Come.
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