SOURCE: "Easy Rawlins Rides Again," in Book World—The Washington Post, August 16, 1992, p. 6.
Corrigan is a commentator and teacher of detective fiction writing. In the following excerpt, she discusses the perpetual negativity in the lives of fictional detectives and finds White Butterfly charged with "excitement, social commentary, and clever, syncopated dialogue" but nevertheless "sad as hell."
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