Crime on Her Mind

Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties

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Crime on Her Mind

Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties

1st ed.
  • 4.0 (1 rating)
  • 4 Want to read

Fifteen nineteenth-and twentieth-century English and American mystery stories featuring female private eyes and police women, and reflecting the development of the woman detective.

Publish Date
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
380

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Table of Contents

Catherine Louisa Pirkis: The murder at Troyte's Hill
George R. Sims: The man with the wild eyes
Clarence Rook: The stir outside the Cafe Royal
L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace: Mr. Bovey's unexpected will
Baroness Emmuska Orczy: The Fordwych Castle mystery
Hugh C. Weir: The man with nine lives
Anna Katharine Green: The golden slipper
Arthur B. Reeve: The dope fiends
Hulbert Footner: The murder at Fernhurst
E. Phillips Oppenheim: Too many dukes
Mignon G. Eberhart: The calico dog
William Irish: Angel face
G. D. H. Cole and M. Cole: The mother of the detective
Gladys Mitchell: Daisy Bell
Stuart Palmer: Snafu murder
The women detectives: a chronological survey.

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 379-380.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.0872
Library of Congress
PZ1.S6395 Cr3, PR1309.D4 Cr3

Contributors

Editor
Michele B. Slung
Introduction
Michele B. Slung

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxx, 380 p. ;
Number of pages
380

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL5061513M
Internet Archive
crimeonhermindfi00slun
ISBN 10
039449573X
LCCN
74026201
OCLC/WorldCat
1177112
LibraryThing
453233
Goodreads
5131682

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL18156112W

Community Reviews (1)

Enjoyability 1 Engaging 100% Genres 1 Mystery 50% Anthology 50% Features 1 Bibliography 50% Table of contents 50% Purpose 1 Entertainment 100%

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