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.