| Description |
xii, 367 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sara Paretsky -- Parties unknown by the jury, or, The valour of my tongue / P.M. Carlson -- Rock and a hard place / Nancy Pickard -- Solar zits / Liza Cody -- Astronomical scarf / Ruth Rendell -- On the edge / Irina Muravyova -- Nightfire / Eleanor Taylor Bland -- Beneath the lilacs / Nevada Barr -- Nothing to lose / Frances Fyfield -- Surprise of his life / Elizabeth George -- Only a woman / Amel Benaboura -- Miles to go / Dorothy Salisbury Davis -- Lesson in murder / Andrea Smith -- Miss Gibson / Linda Barnes -- Green murder / Susan Geason -- Baroness / Amanda Cross -- 7.62 / Pieke Biermann -- I'll get back to you / Susan Dunlap -- Saturday night fever / Helga Anderle -- Dreams of home / Dicey Scroggins Jackson -- Hamlet's dilemma / Linda Grant -- Lost dreams / Myriam Laurini -- Witch and her cats / Antonia Fraser -- Belladonna / Barbara Wilson -- Publicity stunts / Sara Paretsky -- Cracks in the sidewalk / Marcia Muller -- Performance crime / Lia Matera. |
| Summary |
Stories on crime by women writers. In Frances Fyfield's Nothing to Lose, an Englishwoman plots to get rid of her African husband after a mixed marriage goes sour, while Helga Anderle's Saturday Night Fever is on a journalist's reaction to a murder. |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, American.
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American fiction -- Women authors.
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| Added Author |
Paretsky, Sara.
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| ISBN |
0385314019 |
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9780385314015 |
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