Sunday Story Ratings #25: Mistral
Mistral by Raoul Whitfield
Originally published December 15, 1931 in Adventure; this edition 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Collected in: Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian)
PG
(L, D, V)
Coarse Language (PG)
Drug Use (PG) {Tobacco, alcohol}
Violence (PG) {Only one incident toward the end, dramatic and tense but not graphic}
Representations
Gender:
Male protagonist, male characters.
Sex:
Not noted.
Race & Ethnicity:
Mostly (presumed-)white European, some US. According to the story intro, the writer has a Spanish-Filipino detective but I don't think he's the lead here, and if the lead's ethnicity were indicated I missed it.
Disability, Physical Diversity and Health:
One character has a scar. That seems to be all.
Awards
Not found.
Notes
I liked this one. Not sure what to say about it, I suppose I found the detective character intriguing and am curious to read more of him, except I think he was a one-off. I rather felt the growing empathy and guilt wert the other guy.