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The big book of female detectives, edited and with introduction by Otto Penzler

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The big book of female detectives

1031918478

edited and with introduction by Otto Penzler

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting P.I.s like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, and many more"--, Provided by publisher

The mysterious countess / Anonymous -- The unraveled mystery / Andrew Forrester, Jr. -- The Redhill Sisterhood / C.L. Pirkis -- The diamond lizard / George R. Sims -- The stir outside the Caf? Royal / Clarence Rook -- The Mandarin / Fergus Hume -- The outside ledge: a Cablegram mystery / L.T. Meade & Robert Eustance -- The Frewin Miniatures / Emmuska Orczy -- Conscience / Richard Marsh -- The hidden violin / M. McDonnell Bodkin -- Christabel's crystal / Carolyn Wells -- The bullet from nowhere / Hugh C. Weir -- An intangible clew -- Planted / James Oppenheim -- The wizard's safe / Valentine -- Red Hot / Frederick Nebel -- The domino lady collects / Lars Anderson -- The letters and the law / T.T. Flynn -- The old maids die / Whitman Chambers -- Too many clients / D.B. McCandless -- Rat runaround / Roger Torrey -- Murder with music and coke for co-eds / Adolphe Barreaux -- Chiller-diller / Richard Sale -- The passing of Anne Marsh / Arthur Leo Zagat -- The secret adversary / Agatha Christie -- Diamond cut diamond / Frederic Arnold Kummer -- Locked doors / Mary Roberts Rinchart -- The tea-leaf / Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace -- The almost perfect murder / Hulbert Footner -- The lover of St. Lys / F. Tennyson Jesse -- Misogyny at Mougins / Gilbert Frankau -- Introducing Susan Dare / Mignon G. Eberhart -- The bloody crescendo / Vincent Starrett -- Burglars must dine / E. Philips Oppenheim -- The missing character / Phylis Bentley -- Murder in the movies / Karl Detzer -- The Gilded Pupil / Ethel Lina White -- The case of the of the hundred cats / Gladys Mitchel -- Murder with flowers / Q Patrick -- Vacancy with corpse / H.H. Holmes -- The riddle of the Black Museum / Stuart Palmer -- Meeredith's murder / Charlotte Armstrong -- Flowers for an angel / Nigel Morland -- There's death for remembrance / Frances & Richard Lockridge -- Mom sings an aria / James Yaffe -- All the lonely people / Marcia Muller -- Blood types / Julie Smith -- A poison that leaves no trace / Sue Grafton -- Discards / Faye Kellerman -- Spooked / Carolyn G. Hart -- Making lemonade / Barbara Paul -- Louise / Max Allan Collins -- Strung out / Sara Paretsky -- Beneath the lilacs / Nevada Barr -- Miss Gibson / Linda Barnes -- Headaches and bad dreams / Lawrence Block -- An affair of inconvenience / Anne Perry -- Beaubien / Deborah Morgan -- Double-crossing Delancey / S.J. Rozan -- The shoeshine man's regrets / Laura Lippman -- Dust up / Wendy Hornsby -- The case of the Parr children / Antonia Fraser -- Fast / Jeffery Deaver -- The winged assassin / L.T. Meade & Robert Eustace -- The blood-red cross / L.T. Mead & Robert Eustace -- The adventure of the Carnegie Library / John Kendrick Bangs -- The woman from the east / Edgar Wallace -- She knew what to do / Joseph Shearing -- The forgers / Arthur B. Reeve -- The meanest man in Europe / David Durham -- Four Square Jane unmasked / Edgar Wallace -- The adventure of the headless statue / Eugene Thomas / The madman goes dramatic / Perry Paul -- Extenuating circumstances / Joyce Carol Oates.