Women crime writers. Four suspense novels of the 1940s / Sarah Weinman, editor.
Material type:
TextSeries: Library of America ; 268.Publisher: New York : The Library of America, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 767 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1598534300
- 9781598534306
- Four suspense novels of the 1940s
- Caspary, Vera, 1899-1987. Laura (Novel)
- Eustis, Helen Horizontal man
- Actresses -- Fiction
- Drifters -- Fiction
- Mistaken identity -- Fiction
- Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Serial murderers -- Fiction
- Single women -- Fiction
- Women authors -- 20th century
- Young women -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
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Main Library | Mystery | Weinman Sarah | Available | 33111008057966 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today's bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers is largely unknown. 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 that leads to today's leading crime writers. From the 1940s here are Vera Caspary, Helen Eustis and Elizabeth Sanxay Holding.
Includes bibliographical references.
Laura / Vera Caspary -- The horizontal man / Helen Eustis -- In a lonely place / Dorothy B. Hughes -- The blank wall / Elisabeth Sanxay Holding.
Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind.