Women crime writers
Subtitle: four suspense novels of the 1940s
By: Sarah Weinman, editor
Contributors: Caspary, Vera, 1899-1987; Eustis, Helen; Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-1993; Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay, 1889-1955
Series: The Library of America -- 268; Library of America -- 268.
Publisher: The Library of America
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 767
ISBN-13: 9781598534306
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Actresses; Drifters; Police; Schriftstellerin; Serial murderers; Single women; Mistaken identity; Crimes against; American Detective and mystery stories; Women authors; Kriminalroman; Young women; American fiction; American Suspense fiction
Other titles: Four suspense novels of the 1940s
Description: Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 760-767).
Table of contents: title: Laura  -- Vera Caspary; title: The horizontal man  -- Helen Eustis; title: In a lonely place  -- Dorothy B. Hughes; title: The blank wall -- Elisabeth Sanxay Holding.