Crime on Her Mind
Subtitle: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties
By: edited and with introductions by Michele B. Slung.
Contributors: Slung, Michele B., 1947- comp.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English; Detective and mystery stories, American; Women detectives -- Fiction
Description: Fifteen nineteenth-and twentieth-century English and American mystery stories featuring female private eyes and police women, and reflecting the development of the woman detective.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 379-380.
Table of contents: title: Catherine Louisa Pirkis: The murder at Troyte's Hill; title: George R. Sims: The man with the wild eyes; title: Clarence Rook: The stir outside the Cafe Royal; title: L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace: Mr. Bovey's unexpected will; title: Baroness Emmuska Orczy: The Fordwych Castle mystery; title: Hugh C. Weir: The man with nine lives; title: Anna Katharine Green: The golden slipper; title: Arthur B. Reeve: The dope fiends; title: Hulbert Footner: The murder at Fernhurst; title: E. Phillips Oppenheim: Too many dukes; title: Mignon G. Eberhart: The calico dog; title: William Irish: Angel face; title: G. D. H. Cole and M. Cole: The mother of the detective; title: Gladys Mitchell: Daisy Bell; title: Stuart Palmer: Snafu murder; title: The women detectives: a chronological survey.