Dimensions
111 x 177 x 35mm
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 other buried treasures waiting to be rediscovered.
All of them have 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.
