Crime On Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties [Paperback]

Michele B. Slung (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 380 pages
• Publisher: Pantheon Books / Random House; First edition (1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394732170
• ISBN-13: 978-0394732176
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,444,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars HOW SHE DONE HIM IN AND OTHER CRIME STORIES BY WOMEN AUTHORS, January 22, 2006

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Lady Gal Music "Joy" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crime on her mind: Fifteen stories of female sleuths from the Victorian era to the forties (Hardcover)

I bought this book at a second hand book store which actually had a fine selection of women's literature/mystery books. This book is an anthology of some short stories written by women but I didn't get it for ONLY that reason: I purchased the book because of its descriptive catalogue of over 100 women dectectives from 1861-1974 (this book was pub in 1975 so later excellent authors are not listed-which is the only drawback). However the short stories of many early women writers are featured here: Baroness Orczy Emmuska, Anna Katherine Green, Gladys Mitchell, and concluding with the women Detective chronoligical survey. This is a RARE copy and may be difficult to locate. I would give it a higher star rating except that many of the stories are not by women authors. Still, Michele B Slung included a number of rarely published women authors of detective fiction, a rare genre in itself.

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