Women Crime Writers. Four Suspense Novels of the 1940sWomen Crime Writers. Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s
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Book, 2015
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Current format, Book, 2015, , All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsThough women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. This volume gathers four classic works that together reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage to today’s leading crime writers. From the 1940s here are Vera Caspary’s famous career girl mystery Laura, Helen Eustis’s intricate academic thriller The Horizontal Man, Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place, the terrifyingly intimate portrait of a serial killer, and Elizabeth Sanxay Holding’s The Blank Wall, in which a wife in wartime is forced to take extreme measures when her family is threatened.
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- Caspary, Vera, 1899-1987
- Eustis, Helen
- Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-1993
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- [New York] : The Library of America, [2015], ©2015
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