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A moment on the edge : 100 years of crime stories by women

Call Number

  • MYSTERY GEOR (CEN)

Edition

1st U.S. ed.

Publication Information

New York : HarperCollins, [2004], c2002.

Physical Description

xviii, 540 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes

Originally published: Crime from the mind of a woman. Great Britain : Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.

Contents

  • Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell
  • Man who knew how / Dorothy L. Sayers
  • I can find my way out / Ngaio Marsh
  • Summer people / Shirley Jackson
  • St. Patrick's Day in the mornign / Charlotte Armstrong
  • Purple is everything / Dorothy Salisbury Davis
  • Money to burn / Margery Allingham
  • Nice place to stay / Nedra Tyre
  • Clever and quick / Christianna Brand
  • Country lovers / Nadine Gordimer
  • Irony of hate / Ruth Rendell
  • Sweet baby Jenny / Joyce Harrington
  • Wild mustard / Maarcia Muller
  • Jemima Shore at the sunny grave / Antonia Fraser
  • case of the pietro andromache / Sara Paretsky
  • Afraid all the time / Nancy Pickard
  • Young shall see visions, and the old dreams dreams / Kristine Kathryn Rusch --
  • (Cont'd) Predatory woman / Sharyn McCrumb
  • Jack be quick / Barbara Paul
  • Ghost station / Carolyn Wheat
  • New moon and rattlesnakes / Wendy Hornsby
  • Death of a snowbird / J.A. Jance
  • River mouth / Lia Matera
  • Scandal in winter / Gillian Linscott
  • Murder-two / Carol Oates
  • English autumn-American fall / Minette Walters.

Added Authors

Elizabeth George