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?)