Charlotte Armstrong

(Author)

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s: Mischief / The Blunderer / Beast in View / Fools' GoldHardcover, 1 September 2015

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s: Mischief / The Blunderer / Beast in View / Fools' Gold
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Part of Series
Library of America Women Crime Writers Collection
Part of Series
Library of America
Print Length
848 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Library of America
Date Published
1 Sep 2015
ISBN-10
1598534319
ISBN-13
9781598534313

Description

The Real Lolita author Sarah Wienman presents a landmark collection of 4 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 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.

Product Details

Authors:
Charlotte ArmstrongPatricia HighsmithMargaret MillarDolores Hitchens
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 September 2015
Dimensions:
20.32 x 12.7 x 3.3 cm
Genre:
Feminine
ISBN-10:
1598534319
ISBN-13:
9781598534313
Language:
English
Pages:
848
Weight:
635.03 gm

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