Sunday Story Ratings #31: Waiting for Rusty
Waiting for Rusty by William Cole
Originally published October 1939 in Black Mask; this edition 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Collected in: Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian)
PG
(D, V)
Drug Use {PG} {Smoking}
Violence {PG}
Representations
Gender:
One non-viewpoint woman as major character, several men of varying degrees of importance. Story driven by her relationship with an off-screen man.
Sex:
Very brief story driven by heterosexuality.
Race & Ethnicity:
No indications, assumed all white USAians.
Disability, Physical Diversity and Health:
No mention.
Awards
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Notes
Brief and kind of tragic, if you are willing to sympathise with Gun Moll No. 1 (and why not?)