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Maxine O'Callaghan


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Maxine OCallaghan was born in Tennessee in 1937 and grew up in the boot heel of Missouri as a sharecroppers child.  She was the first in her large extended family to finish high school and left a few days after graduation with ten dollars and a bus ticket for Memphis.  She went from there to Miami where she joined the Marine Corp Reserve and then to Chicago where she went on active duty for a while and got her first taste of California during basic training at the Recruit Depot in San Diego.

In 1972 she moved with her husband and two children to Orange County, CA, a long way from the cotton fields of her childhood.  As a stay-at-home mom she began her writing career with short stories, including one to Alfred Hitchcocks Mystery Magazine about a private detective named Delilah West, which predates both Marcia Muller and Sue Graftons entry into the female PI genre. She published thirteen novels and a collection of short stories.  She has been nominated for both the Anthony and Bram Stoker award.  Her novels and short fiction featuring Delilah West were honored by the Private Eye Writers of America with their lifetime achievement award, The Eye, for her contribution to the field.
 

Awards: Shamus (1999)  see all

Genres: Mystery
 
Series
Delilah West
   1. Death is Forever (1981)
   2. Run From Nightmare (1981)
   3. Hit and Run (Mean Streets) (1989)
   4. Set-Up (1991)
   5. Trade-Off (1994)
   6. Down for the Count (1997)
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Anne Menlo
   1. Shadow of the Child (1996)
   2. Only in the Ashes (1997)
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Novels
   Dangerous Charade (1985)
   The Bogeyman (1986)
   Dark Visions (1988)
   Something's Calling Me Home (1991)
   Dark Time (1992)
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Books containing stories by Maxine O'Callaghan
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Mothers and Sons (2000)
edited by
Jill M Morgan
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First Cases 3 (1999)
New and Classic Tales of Detection
(First Cases, book 3)
edited by
Robert J Randisi

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Awards
1999 The Eye, the PWA's Lifetime Achievement award

Award nominations
1998 Shamus Award for Best PI Novel (nominee) : Down for the Count
1992 Anthony Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Wolf Winter
1991 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (nominee) : Wolf Winter


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