A Woman's Eye
by Sara Paretsky (Editor)
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Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction, introduced and edited by Sara ParetskyThe 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 show more 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!. show less
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I've never been especially drawn to the short story as a form of story-telling, preferring the luxury a novel allows to present and complete both character and plot. So I'm not sure how I came by this anthology of short stories by female crime authors, published by Sara Paretsky in 1991 - but I found a lot in it to like.
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 show more 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. show less
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 show more 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. show less
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 show more --
That summer at Quichiquois / Dorothy B. Hughes. show less
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 show more --
That summer at Quichiquois / Dorothy B. Hughes. show less
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Author Sara Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa on June 8, 1947. She received a degree in political science from the University of Kansas and ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago; her dissertation was entitled "The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War." She also earned an MBA from the show more University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. She married a professor of physics (University of Chicago). The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. V. I. Warshawsky shows a female detective succeeding a traditionally male role. Paretsky has won numerous awards for her work including the Silver Dagger Award for Toxic Shock, the Gold Dagger award for Blacklist, and the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers Association. Her title Brush Back made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- A Woman's Eye
- Original publication date
- 1991
- First words
- My dear, you are a young woman.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I have to know the entire story.
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- Fiction and Literature, Mystery
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- 813.0872099287 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction
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- PS648 .D4 .W55 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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