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Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s (LOA #268)

Author : Vera Caspary
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1598534300
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s (LOA #268) written by Vera Caspary and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of crime fiction—women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of their mid-century predecessors is largely unknown. Turning from the mean streets of the hardboiled school, these groundbreaking female novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel. Their work—influential in its day and still vibrant today—is long overdue for discovery. Edited by The Real Lolita author Sarah Weinman, this collection gathers four classic crime novels from the 1940s: Vera Caspary’s famous career girl mystery, Laura; Helen Eustis’s intricate academic thriller, The Horizontal Man; Dorothy B. Hughes’s terrifyingly intimate portrait of a serial killer, In a Lonely Place; and Elizabeth Sanxay Holding’s The Blank Wall, in which a wartime wife is forced to take extreme measures when her family is threatened. Together, these underappreciated works reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage of today’s leading crime writers. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s (LOA #269)

Author : Sarah Weinman
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598534572
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s (LOA #269) written by Sarah Weinman and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Library of America and editor Sarah Weinman redefine the classic era of American crime fiction with a landmark collection of four 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 bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. Turning in many cases from the mean streets of the hardboiled school to explore the anxieties and terrors lurking in everyday life, these groundbreaking novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel. Their work, influential in its day and still vibrant and extraordinarily riveting today, is long overdue for rediscovery. This volume, the second of a two-volume collector’s set, gathers four classic works that together reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage to today’s leading crime writers. From the 1950s here are Charlotte Armstrong’s Mischief, the nightmarish drama of a child entrusted to a psychotic babysitter, Patricia Highsmith’s The Blunderer, brilliantly tracking 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. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

In a Lonely Place

Author : Dorothy B. Hughes
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141192313
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book In a Lonely Place written by Dorothy B. Hughes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dix Steele is back in town, and 'town' is post-war LA. His best friend Brub is on the force of the LAPD, and as the two meet in country clubs and beach bars, they discuss the latest case: a strangler is preying on young women in the dark. Dix listens with interest as Brub describes their top suspect, as yet unnamed. Dix loves the dark and women in equal measure, so he knows enough to watch his step, though when he meets the luscious Laurel Gray, something begins to crack. The American Dream is showing its seamy underside.

The Horizontal Man

Author : Helen Eustis
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598534580
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Horizontal Man written by Helen Eustis and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Eustis’s The Horizontal Man (1946) won an Edgar Award for best first novel and continues to fascinate as a singular mixture of detection, satire, and psychological portraiture. A poet on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in the hot house atmosphere of an English department rife with talk of Freud and Kafka. This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America's two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s, edited by Sarah Weinman.

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s

Author : Sarah Weinman
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598534564
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s written by Sarah Weinman and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Library of America and editor Sarah Weinman redefine the classic era of American crime fiction with a landmark collection of four 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 bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. Turning in many cases from the mean streets of the hardboiled school to explore the anxieties and terrors lurking in everyday life, these groundbreaking novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel. Their work, influential in its day and still vibrant and extraordinarily riveting today, is long overdue for rediscovery. This volume, the first of a two-volume collector’s set, gathers four classic works that together reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage to today’s leading crime writers. From the 1940s here are Vera Caspary’s famous career girl mystery Laura, Helen Eustis’s intricate academic thriller The Horizontal Man, Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place, the terrifyingly intimate portrait of a serial killer, and Elizabeth Sanxay Holding’s The Blank Wall, in which a wife in wartime is forced to take extreme measures when her family is threatened. From the Hardcover edition.

Laura

Author : Vera Caspary
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822206460
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Laura written by Vera Caspary and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1955-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: When Mark McPherson first falls in love with Laura, he knows he's in love with a phantom--for Laura is dead, and he's in charge of her murder investigation. From her portrait, her letters, her personal effects and from his contacts with the thre

Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

Author : Sarah Weinman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143122541
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives written by Sarah Weinman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre Murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters—and their creators—better than Sarah Weinman. One of today’s preeminent authorities on crime fiction, Weinman asks: Where would bestselling authors like Gillian Flynn, Sue Grafton, or Tana French be without the women writers who came before them? In Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, Weinman brings together fourteen hair-raising tales by women who—from the 1940s through the mid-1970s—took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to reveal its dark essence. Lovers of crime fiction from any era will welcome this deliciously dark tribute to a largely forgotten generation of women writers.

Mischief

Author : Charlotte Armstrong
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
ISBN 13 : 9049985564
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Mischief written by Charlotte Armstrong and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple makes the mistake of trusting their child to the wrong babysitter Bunny’s parents should not have brought her to New York City, but her father has an important speech to make in the city, and her mother couldn’t bear to be away from the darling nine-year-old girl. When Mommy and Daddy leave for the speech, Bunny will stay in the hotel with a babysitter, sound asleep and perfectly safe. What could possibly go wrong? The sitter is Nell, a plain young woman from Indiana whose dull expression conceals madness. She puts Bunny to bed and amuses herself in the other room, making prank calls and trying on the mother’s jewelry. So far all is well, but something is broken inside Nell’s mind. As long she is in charge, the child will not be safe.

The Blunderer

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393345041
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Blunderer written by Patricia Highsmith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-11-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night." —The New Yorker For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. She is distant and neurotic, and Walter finds himself harboring gruesome fantasies about her demise. When Clara's dead body turns up at the bottom of a cliff in a manner uncannily resembling the recent death of a woman named Helen Kimmel who was murdered by her husband, Walter finds himself under intense scrutiny. He commits several blunders that claim his career and his reputation, cost him his friends, and eventually threaten his life. The Blunderer examines the dark obsessions that lie beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary people. With unerring psychological insight, Patricia Highsmith portrays characters who cross the precarious line separating fantasy from reality.

Beast in View

Author : Margaret Millar
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1681990121
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Beast in View written by Margaret Millar and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as one of the greatest psychological mysteries ever written and winner of the 1956 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel, Beast in View remains as freshly sinister today as the day it was first published. Thirty-year-old Helen Clarvoe is scared and all alone. The heiress of a small fortune, she is resented by her mother and, to a lesser degree, her brother. The only person who seemingly cares for her is the family’s attorney, Paul Blackshear. A shut-in, Helen maintains her residence in an upscale hotel downtown. But passive-aggressive resentment isn’t the only thing hounding Helen Clarvoe. A string of bizarre and sometimes threatening prank phone calls has upended her spinster’s routine. Increasingly threatened, she turns to a reluctant Mr. Blackshear to get to the bottom of these strange calls. Blackshear is doubtful of their seriousness but he quickly realizes that he is in the midst of something far more sinister than he thought possible. As he unravels the mystery of the calls the identity behind them slowly emerges, predatory and treacherous.

The Big Knockover

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0679722599
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Big Knockover written by Dashiell Hammett and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 1989-07-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jobs entail taking on a gang of modern-day freebooters, a vice-ridden hell's acre in the Arizona desert, and the bank job to end all bank jobs, along with such assorted grifters as Babe McCloor, Bluepoint Vance, Alphabet Shorty McCoy, and the Dis-and-Dat Kid.

The Blank Wall

Author : Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Publisher : Persephone Books
ISBN 13 : 9781903155325
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book The Blank Wall written by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and published by Persephone Books. This book was released on 1947 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suburban matron, harassed by wartime domestic problems - her husband is overseas - finds herself implicated in the murder of her young daughter's extremely unattractive beau. This novel is about maternal love and about the heroine's relationship with those around her, especially her children and her maid.

The Lady in the Lake

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Lady in the Lake written by Raymond Chandler and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Lady in the Lake" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Paperback Confidential

Author : Brian Ritt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933586618
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Paperback Confidential written by Brian Ritt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 132 profiles of the men and women who wrote the books that became the backbone of the Pulp and Paperback Era from the 1930s through the 1960s. Each profile contains details about the author's life and explores key works; also covered are screenplay and teleplay work, as well as movies based on the authors' stories.

Fatale

Author : Jean-Patrick Manchette
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590173813
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fatale written by Jean-Patrick Manchette and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Books Original Whether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there’s no question that Aimée is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she’s set her eyes on a backwater burg—where, while posing as an innocent (albeit drop-dead gorgeous) newcomer to town, she means to sniff out old grudges and engineer new opportunities, deftly playing different people and different interests against each other the better, as always, to make a killing. But then something snaps: the master manipulator falls prey to a pure and wayward passion. Aimée has become the avenging angel of her own nihilism, exacting the destruction of a whole society of destroyers. An unholy original, Jean-Patrick Manchette transformed the modern detective novel into a weapon of gleeful satire and anarchic fun. In Fatale he mixes equal measures of farce, mayhem, and madness to prepare a rare literary cocktail that packs a devastating punch.

Unspeakable Acts

Author : Sarah Weinman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062839993
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Unspeakable Acts written by Sarah Weinman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the award-winning author of The Real Lolita The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and Furious Hours, and TV hits like American Crime Story and Wild Wild Country, the cultural appetite for stories of real people doing terrible things is insatiable. Acclaimed author ofThe Real Lolitaand editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of America) and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (Penguin), Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of recent true crime tales. She culls together some of the most refreshing and exciting contemporary journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. Michelle Dean’s “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick” went viral when it first published and is the basis for the TV showThe Act and Pamela Colloff’s “The Reckoning,” is the gold standard for forensic journalism. There are 13 pieces in all and as a collection, they showcase writing about true crime across the broadest possible spectrum, while also reflecting what makes crime stories so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader.

Basic Black With Pearls

Author : Helen Weinzweig
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372169
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Basic Black With Pearls written by Helen Weinzweig and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue. Shirley and Coenraad’s affair has been going on for decades, but her longing for him is as desperate as ever. She is a Toronto housewife; he works for an international organization known only as the Agency. Their rendezvous take place in Tangier, in Hong Kong, in Rome and are arranged by an intricate code based on notes slipped into issues of National Geographic. He recognizes her by her costume: a respectable black dress and string of pearls; his appearance, however, is changeable. But something has happened, the code has been discovered, and Coenraad sends Shirley (who prefers to be known as “Lola Montez”) to Toronto, the last place she wants to go. There the trail leads her through the sites of her impoverished immigrant childhood and sends her, finally, to her own house, where she discards her pearls and trades in her basic black for a dress of vibrant multicolored silk. Helen Weinzweig published her first novel when she was fifty-eight. Basic Black with Pearls, her second, won the Toronto Book Award and has since come to be recognized as a feminist landmark. Here Weinzweig imbues the formal inventiveness of the nouveau roman with psychological poignancy and surprising humor to tell a story of simultaneous dissolution and discovery.