Dimensions
155 x 234 x 42mm
26 Compelling Crime Stories from some of the 20th Century's Best Women Writers.
Why crime? Why exists this fascination with crime and why, above all, exists this fascination with crime on the part of female writers?
Bestselling novelist Elizabeth George poses this question in her Introduction, answers it with her customary elegance and illustrates it with a rich and varied collection of international writers, some household names; others buried treasures waiting to be rediscovered.
The stories have locations as diverse as Africa and the Caribbean, London and Los Angeles, San Francisco and Switzerland. Some are modern; some period. Some feature well-known sleuths: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, Jemina Shore; or notorious villains: Jack the Ripper; others are tales of "ordinary" people caught up in out of the ordinary events. All of them share in common a desire to explore mankind in a moment on the edge. The edge equates to the crime committed. How the characters deal with the edge is the story.
Contributors include Susan Glaspell, Dorothy L Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Shirley Jackson, Charlotte Armstrong, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Margery Allingham, Nedra tyre, Christianna Brand, Nadine Gordimer, Ruth Rendell, Joyce Harrington, Marcia Muller, Antonia Fraser, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Sharyn McCrumb, Barbara Paul, Carolyn Wheat, Wendy Hornsby, JA Jance, Lia Matera, Gillian Linscott, Joyce Carol Oates, Minette Walters.
