The Big Book of Female Detectives by Penzler, Otto -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Other Titles Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction The Victorians and Edwardians (British)

The Mysterious Countess: Anonymous The Unraveled Mystery: Andrew Forrester, Jr. The Redhill Sisterhood: C. L. Pirkis The Diamond Lizard: George R. Sims The Stir Outside the Café Royal: Clarence Rook The Mandarin: Fergus Hume The Outside Ledge: A Cablegram Mystery: L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace The Frewin Miniatures: Emmuska Orczy Conscience: Richard Marsh The Hidden Violin: M. McDonnell Bodkin

Before World War I (American)

Christabel’s Crystal: Carolyn Wells The Bullet from Nowhere: Hugh C. Weir An Intangible Clew: Anna Katharine Green Planted: James Oppenheim

The Pulp Era

The Wizard’s Safe: Valentine Red Hot: Frederick Nebel The Domino Lady Collects: Lars Anderson The Letters and the Law: T. T. Flynn The Old Maids Die: Whitman Chambers Too Many Clients: D. B. McCandless Rat Runaround: Roger Torrey Murder with Music and Coke for Co-Eds: Adolphe Barreaux Chiller-Diller: Richard Sale The Passing of Anne Marsh: Arthur Leo Zagat

The Golden Age

The Secret Adversary: Agatha Christie Diamond Cut Diamond: Frederic Arnold Kummer Locked Doors: Mary Roberts Rinehart The Tea-Leaf: Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace The Almost Perfect Murder: Hulbert Footner The Lover of St. Lys: F. Tennyson Jesse Misogyny at Mougins: Gilbert Frankau Introducing Susan Dare: Mignon G. Eberhart The Bloody Crescendo: Vincent Starrett Burglars Must Dine: E. Phillips Oppenheim The Missing Character: Phyllis Bentley Murder in the Movies: Karl Detzer The Gilded Pupil: Ethel Lina White The Case of the Hundred Cats: Gladys Mitchell

Mid-Century

Murder with Flowers: Q. Patrick Vacancy with Corpse: H. H. Holmes The Riddle of the Black Museum: Stuart Palmer Meredith’s Murder: Charlotte Armstrong Flowers for an Angel: Nigel Morland There’s Death for Remembrance: Frances & Richard Lockridge Mom Sings an Aria: James Yaffe

The Modern Era

All the Lonely People: Marcia Muller Blood Types: Julie Smith A Poison That Leaves No Trace: Sue Grafton Discards: Faye Kellerman Spooked: Carolyn G. Hart Making Lemonade: Barbara Paul Louise: Max Allan Collins Strung Out: Sara Paretsky Beneath the Lilacs: Nevada Barr Miss Gibson: Linda Barnes Headaches and Bad Dreams: Lawrence Block An Affair of Inconvenience: Anne Perry Beaubien: Deborah Morgan Double-Crossing Delancey: S. J. Rozan The Shoeshine Man’s Regrets: Laura Lippman Dust Up: Wendy Hornsby The Case of the Parr Children: Antonia Fraser Fast: Jeffery Deaver

Bad Girls

The Winged Assassin: L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace The Blood-Red Cross: L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace The Adventure of the Carnegie Library: John Kendrick Bangs The Woman from the East: Edgar Wallace She Knew What to Do: Joseph Shearing The Forgers: Arthur B. Reeve The Meanest Man in Europe: David Durham Four Square Jane Unmasked: Edgar Wallace The Adventure of the Headless Statue: Eugene Thomas The Madame Goes Dramatic: Perry Paul Extenuating Circumstances: Joyce Carol Oates

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