Crime from the mind of a woman
Subtitle: a collection of women crime writers of the century
By: edited by Elizabeth George
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780340819685; 9780340819692
Subjects: English fiction; Women authors; English Detective and mystery stories
Description: "26 compelling crme stories from some of the century's best women wrtiers" (from cover).
Table of contents: title: A jury of her peers -- Susan Glaspell; title: The man who knew how -- Dorothy L. Sayers; title: I can find my way out -- Ngaio Marsh; title: The summer people -- Shirley Jackson; title: St. Patrick's Day in the morning -- Charlotte Armstrong; title: The purple is everything -- Dorothy Salisbury Davis; title: Money to burn -- Margery Allingham; title: A nice place to stay -- Nedra Tyre; title: Clever and quick -- Christianna Brand; title: Country lovers -- Nadine Gordimer; title: The irony of hate -- Ruth Rendell; title: Sweet baby Jenny -- Joyce Harrington; title: Wild mustard -- Marcia Muller; title: Jemina Shore at the sunny grave -- Antonia Fraser; title: The case of Pedro Andromache -- Sarah Paretsky; title: Afraid all the time -- Nancy Pickard; title: The young shall see visions and the old dream dreams -- Kristine Kathryn Rusch; title: A predatory woman -- Sharyn McCrumb; title: Jack be quick -- Barbara Paul; title: Ghost station -- Carolyn Wheat; title: New moon and rattlesnakes -- Wendy Hornsby; title: Death of a snowbird -- J. A. Vance; title: The river mouth -- Lia Matera; title: A scandal in winter -- Willian Linscott; title: Murder-two -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: English autumn -- American fall-- Minette Walters.