Sunday Story Ratings #35: Nor Iron Bars
Nor Iron Bars by John D. Macdonald
Originally published March-April 1947 in the Doc Savage; this edition 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Collected in: Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian)
PG
(D)
Drug Use {PG} {tobacco}
Representations
Gender:
No female characters.
Sex:
No reference to sexuality or relationships.
Race & Ethnicity:
One black character under imminent threat of lynch mob, all other characters presumed white.
Disability, Physical Diversity and Health:
Viewpoint character recalls a prior dealing with an insane criminal holding a gun.
Notes
This story is easy to like, much as To Kill A Mockingbird is, for featuring a white man taking on the racism of other white folks directed at an innocent black man.