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Library of America
September 2015
On Sale: September 1, 2015
1512 pages
ISBN: 1598534513
EAN: 9781598534511
Kindle: B01682F8QO
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Mystery
The Library of America and editor Sarah Weinman redefine the
classic era of American crime fiction with a landmark
collection of eight brilliant novels by the female pioneers
of the genre, the women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn,
Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline. Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s
best seller lists, the extraordinary creations of the
mid-century female pioneers of the genre are largely
unknown. Their work, influential in its day and still
vibrant and extraordinarily riveting, is long overdue for
rediscovery. Now The Library of America makes these classic
books available in a deluxe two-volume collector’s edition.
From the 1940s, here are Vera Caspary’s famous career girl
mystery Laura; Helen Eustis’s intricate campus thriller The
Horizontal Man; Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place, the
terrifyingly intimate portrait of a serial killer; and
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding’s The Blank Wall, in which a wife
in wartime is forced to take extreme measures when her
family is threatened.
The 1950s volume includes Charlotte Armstrong’s Mischief,
the nightmarish drama of a child entrusted to a psychotic
babysitter; Patricia Highsmith’s brilliant The Blunderer,
which tracks the perverse parallel lives of two men driven
toward murder; Margaret Millar’s Beast in View, a relentless
study in madness; and Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold, a
hard-edged tale of robbery and redemption.
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