Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleep with Strangers | 1955 | Dolores Hitchens | Buy |
| 2 | Sleep With Slander | 1960 | Dolores Hitchens | Buy |
The Jim Sader Mystery series represents Dolores Hitchens’ foray into hardboiled detective fiction, a departure from her cozier Rachel Murdock books. Sader is a private investigator working cases in Southern California, dealing with the kind of shady characters and dangerous situations that defined the PI genre in the 1950s.
The series consists of two novels: “Sleep with Strangers” (1955) and “Sleep With Slander” (1960). While the series was short-lived, both books demonstrate Hitchens’ range as a mystery writer. Where her D.B. Olsen mysteries leaned toward the gentler side, the Sader novels show she could write with a harder edge when the story called for it.