Reviews

The Lethal Sex: the 1959 anthology of the mystery writers of America by John D. MacDonald, Margaret Millar, Juanita Sheridan

marisacarpico's review

3.0

Uneven–as all short story collections are–but largely enjoyable. The last two stories perhaps colored my thinking too much or I might have given this a higher rating. This is, perhaps, chiefly interesting as a cultural document—particularly the into from the editor. Fascinating how many of the bad women in this are punished for their actions and how often the bad men really aren't. IT is strange and possibly telling that so many of the stories here seem to have the same, detached tone.