From Maxine O'Callaghan, Shamus Award nominee, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Before Kinsey Millhone, Sharon McCone and V.I. Warshawski, there was Delilah West, the sensitive, gutsy and resourceful private eye who shattered the boundaries of mystery fiction...starting with the ground-breaking short stories in this collection. "One of the first of the modern women PIs and 
also one of the grittiest, " Los Angeles Times