Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s (LOA #268) Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s (LOA #268)
Book 1 - Library of America Women Crime Writers Collection

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s (LOA #268‪)‬

Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall

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Publisher Description

A landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of crime fiction—women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline   

Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of their mid-century predecessors is largely unknown. Turning from the mean streets of the hardboiled school, these groundbreaking female novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel. Their work—influential in its day and still vibrant today—is long overdue for discovery.
 
Edited by The Real Lolita author Sarah Weinman, this collection gathers four classic crime novels from the 1940s: Vera Caspary’s famous career girl mystery, Laura; Helen Eustis’s intricate academic thriller, The Horizontal Man; Dorothy B. Hughes’s terrifyingly intimate portrait of a serial killer, In a Lonely Place; and Elizabeth Sanxay Holding’s The Blank Wall, in which a wartime wife is forced to take extreme measures when her family is threatened. Together, these underappreciated works reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage of today’s leading crime writers.

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GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2015
September 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
848
Pages
PUBLISHER
Library of America
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
3.7
MB
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