Women Sleuths (Academy Mystery Novellas)
by By Greenberg, Martin Harry and Pronzini, Bill (EDT)
Category: Fiction , Mystery & Detective , General

G.D.H. and Margaret Cole, "The Toys of Death;" An engaging little old lady solves a baffling murder on the south coast of England. Mignon Eberhart, "The Calico Dog;" Susan Dare accepts what is certainly "an invitation to murder" when she gets involved iwth conflicting claimants to a large fortune. Marcia Muller, "The Broken Men;" San Francisco investigator Sharon McCone guards two famous participants in a clown festival and gets enmeshed in homicide. Cornell Woolrich, "The Book that Squealed;" A defaced library book leads to kidnapping and murder in a classic puzzler solved by a librarian.