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The Big Book of Female Detectives

by Otto Penzler (Editor)

Other authors: Lars Anderson (Contributor), Charlotte Armstrong (Contributor), John Kendrick Bangs (Contributor), Linda Barnes (Contributor), Nevada Barr (Contributor) — 67 more, Adolphe Barreaux (Contributor), Phyllis Bentley (Contributor), Lawrence Block (Contributor), M. McDonnell Bodkin (Contributor), Whitman Chambers (Contributor), Agatha Christie (Contributor), Max Allan Collins (Contributor), Jeffery Deaver (Contributor), Karl Detzer (Contributor), David Durham (Contributor), Mignon G. Eberhart (Contributor), Robert Eustace (Contributor), T.T. Flynn (Contributor), Hulbert Footner (Contributor), Andrew Forrester Jr (Contributor), Gilbert Frankau (Contributor), Antonia Fraser (Contributor), Sue Grafton (Contributor), Anna Katharine Green (Contributor), Carolyn G. Hart (Contributor), HH Holmes (Contributor), Wendy Hornsby (Contributor), Fergus Hume (Contributor), Edgar Jepson (Contributor), F. Tennyson Jesse (Contributor), Faye Kellerman (Contributor), Frederic Arnold Kummer (Contributor), Laura Lippman (Contributor), Frances Lockridge (Contributor), Richard Lockridge (Contributor), Richard Marsh (Contributor), DB McCandless (Contributor), LT Meade (Contributor), Gladys Mitchell (Contributor), Deborah Morgan (Contributor), Nigel Morland (Contributor), Marcia Muller (Contributor), Frederick Nebel (Contributor), Joyce Carol Oates (Contributor), E Phillips Oppenheim (Contributor), James Oppenheim (Contributor), Emmuska Orczy (Contributor), Stuart Palmer (Contributor), Sara Paretsky (Contributor), Q. Patrick (Contributor), Barbara Paul (Contributor), Perry Paul (Contributor), Anne Perry (Contributor), CL Pirkis (Contributor), Arthur B. Reeve (Contributor), Mary Roberts Rinehart (Contributor), Clarence Rook (Contributor), SJ Rozan (Contributor), Richard Sale (Contributor), Joseph Shearing (Contributor), George R. Sims (Contributor), Julie Smith (Contributor), Vincent Starrett (Contributor), Eugene Thomas (Contributor), Roger Torrey (Contributor), Valentine (Contributor), Edgar Wallace (Contributor), Hugh C. Weir (Contributor), Carolyn Wells (Contributor), Ethel Lina White (Contributor), James Yaffe (Contributor), Arthur Leo Zagat (Contributor)

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"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting P.I.s like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, and many more"--… (more)

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813.087208Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › By type › Genre fiction › Adventure fiction › Mystery fiction › Collections

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PS648.D4Language and Literature › American literature › American literature › Collections of American literature › Prose (General)

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