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New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2018.
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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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Detective and mystery stories, American.
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Detective and mystery stories, English.
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Women detectives -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- Anthologies (multiple authors)
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FICTION -- Mystery & Detective -- Short Stories.
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FICTION -- Mystery & Detective -- Women Sleuths.
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Detective and mystery stories, American. (OCoLC)fst00891483
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Detective and mystery stories, English. (OCoLC)fst00891515
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Women detectives. (OCoLC)fst01177563
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Electronic books. |
Addl. Author |
Penzler, Otto, editor.
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OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
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Related To |
Print version: Big book of female detectives. New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2018 9780525434740 (DLC) 2018026857 |
ISBN |
9780525434757 (electronic bk.) |
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0525434755 (electronic bk.) |
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