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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Woman's Eye (1991)di Sara Paretsky (A cura di)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A collection of 21 detective, mystery, crime stories by noteworthy women authors. Some stories are better than others; hence, the three stars. Many of the authors have written best-selling novels and have won awards that recognize their works. They bring to their writing "an eye of a woman." Edited by Sara Paretsky, famous for her detective V. I. Warszawski, and published in 1991. Eye of the woman : an introduction / Sara Paretsky -- Lucky dip / Liza Cody -- "Full circle" / Sue Grafton -- Benny's space / Marcia Muller -- The puppet / Dorothy Salisbury Davis -- The scar / Nancy Pickard -- Murder without a text / Amanda Cross -- Discards / Faye Kellerman -- Getting to know you / Antonia Fraser -- A match made in hell / Julie Smith -- Theft of the poet / Barbara Wilson -- Death and diamonds / Susan Dunlap -- Kill the man for me / Mary Wings -- The cutting edge / Marilyn Wallace -- Looking for Thelma / Gillian Slovo -- Deborah's judgment / Margaret Maron -- A man's home / Shelley Singer -- Her good name / Carolyn G. Hart -- Ghost station / Carolyn Wheat -- Where are you, Monica? / Maria Antonia Oliver -- Settled score / Sara Paretsky -- That summer at Quichiquois / Dorothy B. Hughes. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fiction.
Mystery.
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HTML:Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction, introduced and edited by Sara Paretsky The voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski’s Chicago in a case of music and murder . . . to the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting . . . to the gang-held turf of Sharon McCone’s San Francisco, where an eye witness to a slaying says mum’s the word. And then there are mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social workers—ordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen through a woman’s eye. From the opening tale of a girl down-and-out in London and what she steals from a corpse . . . to the final story of a summer vacation in the Berkshires, complete with romance and sudden death . . . this unique collection brings us great mystery writing that engages both our intellects and our hearts. This collection features stories from twenty-one authors, including: Sara Paretsky • Sue Grafton • Marica Muller • Susan Dunlap • Carolyn Hart • Antonia Fraser • Dorothy Salisbury Davis • Amanda Cross • Nancy Pickard • Dorothy B. Hughes • Faye Kellerman • Julie Smith • Barbara Wilson • Mary Wings • and more!. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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My favorites, unsurprisingly, were by authors I already knew and liked: Paretsky, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, Julie Smith, and Dorothy Hughes. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed Muller's Sharon McCone and Julie Smith's Skip Langdon series back when I first read them. I've come to Dorothy Hughes more recently; her entry in this volume was true to her sometimes unsettling form. Carolyn Hart, an author I think I'd only read once previously, had a solid entry. One author who was completely new to me was Carolyn Wheat. Her story, Ghost Station, is an excellent character study with a murder attached. And Barbara Wilson's Theft of the Poet was a bit of feminist fun.
All in all, not enough to make a short story enthusiast of me (so often they just seem to get started with a great idea - and then it's over), but definitely worth the time.
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