The Big Book of Female Detectives by Penzler, Otto

The Big Book of Female Detectives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525434740)

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Format: Paperback
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The Big Book of Female Detectives by Penzler, Otto

The Big Book of Female Detectives

$25.00
The Big Book of Female Detectives by Penzler, Otto

The Big Book of Female Detectives

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original.

For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting P.I.s like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, and many more.

Author: Otto Penzler
ISBN-10: 0525434747
ISBN-13: 9780525434740
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2018
Pages: 1136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.90w x 2.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 08/13/2018
By Otto Penzler
By Otto Penzler
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Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA's Ellery Queen Award and the Raven. He has been given Lifetime Achievement awards by Noircon and The Strand Magazine. His new company, Penzler Publishers, launched its imprint American Mystery Classics in October 2018; it is devoted to reissuing classic American mysteries in hardcover and paperback.

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