Women on the case : 26 original stories by the best women crime writers of our time

These are stories of P.I.s who keep guns in their handbags--or their bras, of crime victims, homeless women, and housewives whose ordinary lives take a brutal, sometimes fatal twist. This collection brings several brilliant international authors to American readers for the first time, including Amel Benaboura, Irina Muravyova, and Helga Anderle. Mystery fans will also enjoy new works by familiar voices Sara Paretsky, Elizabeth George, Amanda Cross, Ruth Rendell, Antonia Fraser, Frances Fyfield, and many more contemporary masters.From the Paperback edition. Introduction / Sara Paretsky -- Parties Unknown By The Jury, Or, The Valour Of My Tongue / P.m. Carlson -- A Rock And A Hard Place / Nancy Pickard -- Solar Zits / Liza Cody -- The Astronomical Scarf / Ruth Rendell -- On The Edge / Irina Muravyova -- Nightfire / Eleanor Taylor Bland -- Beneath The Lilacs / Nevada Barr -- Nothing To Lose / Frances Fyfield -- The Surprise Of His Life / Elizabeth George -- Only A Woman / Amel Benaboura -- Miles To Go / Dorothy Salisbury Davis -- A Lesson In Murder / Andrea Smith -- Miss Gibson / Linda Barnes -- Green Murder / Susan Geason -- The Baroness / Amanda Cross -- 7.62 / Pieke Biermann -- I'll Get Back To You / Susan Dunlap -- Saturday Night Fever / Helga Anderle -- Dreams Of Home / Dicey Scroggins Jackson -- Hamlet's Dilemma / Linda Grant -- Lost Dreams / Myriam Laurini -- A Witch And Her Cats / Antonia Fraser -- Belladonna / Barbara Wilson -- Publicity Stunts / Sara Paretsky -- The Cracks In The Sidewalk / Marcia Muller -- Performance Crime / Lia Matera. Edited By Sara Paretsky. A brilliant collection of 26 original stories from the best women crime writers of our times, introduced and edited by Sara Paretsky From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross’s “The Baroness,” to the chilling “Only A woman,” Algerian writer Amel Benaboura’s English-language debut, here are voices known and unknown at home and abroad, as familiar crime turf in America and England is expanded to Russia, Algeria, Austria, Germany, and South America. From Ruth Rendell’s lovelorn secretary to Eleanor Taylor Bland’s Asian-African college professor, the women characters in these tales are girlfriends who collaborate to catch a thief . . . or get away with murder; P.I.s who keep guns in their handbags . . . or their bras; crime victims, homeless, women, or housewives whose ordinary lives take a brutal, sometimes fatal twist. But in each case, a master storyteller has created new, powerful fiction that plumbs the depth and breadth of a woman’s art. A brilliant collection of 26 original stories from the best women crime writers of our times, introduced and edited by Sara Paretsky From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Crosss#160;The Baroness, to the chilling Only A woman, Algerian writer Amel Benabouras English-language debut, here are voices known and unknown at home and abroad, as familiar crime turf in America and England is expanded to Russia, Algeria, Austria, Germany, and South America. From Ruth Rendells lovelorn secretary to Eleanor Taylor Blands Asian-African college professor, the women characters in these tales are girlfriends who collaborate to catch a thief . . . or get away with murder; P.I.s who keep guns in their handbags . . . or their bras; crime victims, homeless, women, or housewives whose ordinary lives take a brutal, sometimes fatal twist. But in each case, a master storyteller has created new, powerful fiction that plumbs the depth and breadth of a womans art SUMMARY: Stories on crime by women writers. In Frances Fyfield's Nothing to Lose, an Englishwoman plots to get rid of her African husband after a mixed marriage goes sour, while Helga Anderle's Saturday Night Fever is on a journalist's reaction to a murder. mystery,women,detectives,V.I. Warshawksi,short stories A collection of 26 mystery stories, featuring women and written by a variety of women authors