Six-foot blonde detective-lieutenant Cathy Carruthers, a character well-suited for the next Pamela Anderson movie, has 13 adventures in Mel D. Ames' Amazon (Mosaic $20), crime stories mostly serialized in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine in the early 1980s. "The Amazon in repose was disturbing enough; in motion, she was mesmeric. 0-88962-666-9

[BCBW WINTER 1999]