Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s: Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall by Sarah Weinman, Helen Eustis, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Dorothy B. Hughes, Vera Caspary

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s: Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall

Women Crime Writers: Library of America #1

Sarah Weinman, Helen Eustis, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Dorothy B. Hughes, Vera Caspary

848 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction crime mystery mysterious fast-paced
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Women writers have always had a central place in American crime writing, although one wouldn’t know it for all the attention focused on the men of the hardboiled school. This collection, the first of a two-volume omnibus, presents four classics of...

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