Dorothy Uh – Wikipedia

Dorothy Uhnak , née Goldstein, (Bronx, New York, April 24, 1930 – Greenport, New York, July 8, 2006 ) is an American author of a detective novel.

Born in the Bronx, a stone’s throw from a police station, Dorothy Golstein intended for a career in the police. After studying at the New York City College, she became an agent, and two years later, detective at the Metropolitan New York Transit Police. This career assures him to rub shoulders with often dangerous criminals on a daily basis. His first years of experience in the field are found in his first partly autobiographical novel Policewoman: A Young Woman’s Initiation Into the Realities of Justice , published in 1964. The success encountered by this book decides to leave her duties to embark on writing.

Between 1968 and 1997, she published under the pseudonym Dorothy Uhnak (Pronouncez You-Nak) nearly ten novels, the first three of which offer a kind of trilogy featuring the young detective woman Christie opara, model of the author she -Mend during his years of service. Here, as in his following novels, the raw and precise descriptions of Uhnak, the violence presented without concession and the psychological truth of the characters are reported by an uncompromising narration.

Very well received by the criticism and the general public, several of the novels of Uhnak, winners of prestigious awards, were adapted by American television. Thus the Opara trilogy gave rise to a pilot program (broadcast as a TV movie in France under the title of Danger for black beauty ) and a police series in 22 episodes, Get Christie Love! (in) (1974-1975). Teresa Graves embodies detective Christie Opara, renamed Christie Love for the needs of production.

Dorothy Uhnak committed suicide for overdue in 2006.

Romans [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Series Christie opara [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• The Bait (1968)
  Posted in French under the title Hand with bait , Paris, Presses de la Cité, mystery n ^O 13, 1969; re-edition, Paris, bookstore of Champs-Élysées, the mask n ^O 2109, 1992
• The Witness (1969)
  Posted in French under the title Discharge witness , Paris, Presses de la Cité, mystery n ^O 104, 1970; re-edition, Paris, bookstore of Champs-Élysées, the mask n ^O 2197, 1994
• The Ledger (1970)
  Posted in French under the title The register , Paris, Presses de la Cité, mystery n ^O 132, 1971; Reissue, Cité presses, coll. Punch n ^O 96, 1971; re-edition, Paris, bookstore of Champs-Élysées, the mask n ^O 2093, 1992

Other novels [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Policewoman (1964)
• Law and Order (1973)

  Posted in French under the title The cop , Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1974; Reissue, Paris, France-Loisirs, 1974

• The Investigation (1977)
  Posted in French under the title Death is a children’s game , Paris, Éditions du Masque, 1989; reissue, Paris, LGF, the pocket book n ^O 7577, 1991
• False Witness (1981)
  Posted in French under the title A very bad memory , Paris, Gallimard, black series n ^O 1853, 1981; re-edition, Paris, bookstore of Champs-Élysées, the mask n ^O 2152, 1993
• Victims (1986)
  Posted in French under the title Victims , Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1987; Reissue, Paris, Presses-Pocket n ^O 3462, 1990
• The Ryer Avenue Story (1993)
• Codes of Betrayal (1997)

• Claude Mests, Dictionary of police literature , vol. 2 : J – Z , Nantes, Joseph K; coll. “Black time”, 2007 , 1086 p. (ISBN  978-2-910-68645-1 , OCLC  315873361 ) , p. 917 .
• Claude Meslemen et Jean-JACQUES SKIENCE, SN, travel at the end of the black: inventory of 732 authors and their works published in black and blame series: followed by a complete filmography , Paris, Futuropolis, 1982 (OCLC  11972030 ) , p. 363-364 .