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A moment on the edge : 100 years of crime stories by women / edited by Elizabeth George.

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HarperCollins, c2004.

Crime -- Fiction.

0060588217 (alk. paper)

Crime from the mind of a woman

Alternate title:

100 years of crime stories by women

One hundred years of crime stories by women

xviii, 540 p. ; 24 cm.

Originally published under the title: Crime from the mind of a woman.

Introduction / Elizabeth George -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- The man who knew her / Dorothy L. Sayers -- I can find my way out / Ngaio Marsh -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- St. Patrick's Day in the morning / Charlotte Armstrong -- The purple is everything / Dorothy Salisbury Davis -- Money to burn / Margery Allingham -- A nice place to stay / Nedra Tyre -- Clever and quick / Christianna Brand -- Country lovers / Nadine Gordimer -- The irony of hate / Ruth Rendell -- Sweet baby Jenny / Joyce Harrington -- Wild mustard / Marcia Muller -- Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave / Antonia Fraser -- The case of the Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky -- Afraid all the time / Nancy Pickard -- The young shall see visions, and the old dream dreams / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- A predatory woman / Sharyn McCrumb -- Jack be quick / Barbara Paul -- Ghost station / Carolyn Wheat -- New moon and rattlesnakes / Wendy Hornsby -- Death of a snowbird / J.A. Jance -- The river mouth / Lia Matera -- A scandal in winter / Gillian Linscott -- Murder-two / Joyce Carol Oates -- English autumn-American fall / Minette Walters.

A stunning collection of twenty-six crime stories from some of the best practitioners of the genre, who also happen to be some of the most successful women writers of our time.

Mystery fiction.

Short stories -- Women authors.

George, Elizabeth, 1949-

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