Troubled daughters, twisted wives
Subtitle: stories from the trailblazers of domestic suspense
By: edited by Sarah Weinman
Contributors: Tyre, Nedra; Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965; Callahan, Barbara, 1935-2009; Caspary, Vera, 1899-1987; Nielsen, Helen; Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-1993; Harrington, Joyce; Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay, 1889-1955; Armstrong, Charlotte, 1905-1969; Davis, Dorothy Salisbury; Millar, Margaret, 1915-1994; De Ford, Miriam Allen, 1888-1975; Fremlin, Celia
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780143122548
Subjects: Women; Women authors; Women murderers; American fiction; Psychopaths; Daughters; Fiction
Description: A salute to the real femmes fatales of the domestic suspense genre, and the deceitful children, deranged husbands, vengeful friends, and murderous wives they unleashed.  Sarah Weinman, one of today's preeminent authorities of crime fiction, brings together fourteen chilling stories by women who -- from the 1940s through the mid-1970s -- took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to revel its dark essence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-354).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The heroine  -- Patricia Highsmith; title: A nice place to stay  -- Nedra Tyre; title: Louisa, please come home  -- Shirley Jackson; title: Lavender lady  -- Barbara Callahan; title: Sugar and spice  -- Vera Caspary; title: Don't sit under the apple tree  -- Helen Nielsen; title: Everybody needs a mink  -- Dorothy B. Hughes; title: The purple shroud  -- Joyce Harrington; title: The stranger in the car  -- Elisabeth Sanxay Holding; title: The splintered Monday  -- Charlotte Armstrong; title: Lost generation  -- Dorothy Salisbury Davis; title: The people across the canyon  -- Margaret Millar; title: Mortmain  -- Miriam Allen Deford; title: A case of maximum need -- Celia Fremlin.