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Janice Steinberg discusses the Boyle Heights mystery girl in 'Tin Horse'

Janice Steinberg's latest creation isn't technically her creation at all. Rather, the protagonist in her new novel, "The Tin Horse" (Random House: 352 pp., $26 hardcover), is the fully formed version of a marginal character plucked from Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep," a figure Steinberg had been preoccupied with for a while.

By Taffy Brodesser-Akner

February 21, 2013

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