Women on the Case
by Sara Paretsky (Editor)
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A brilliant collection of 26 original stories from the best women crime writers of our times, introduced and edited by Sara ParetskyFrom wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross’s “The Baroness,” to the chilling “Only A woman,” Algerian writer Amel Benaboura’s English-language debut, here are voices known and unknown at home and abroad, as familiar crime turf in America and England is expanded to Russia, Algeria, Austria, Germany, and South America.
From Ruth show more Rendell’s lovelorn secretary to Eleanor Taylor Bland’s Asian-African college professor, the women characters in these tales are girlfriends who collaborate to catch a thief . . . or get away with murder; P.I.s who keep guns in their handbags . . . or their bras; crime victims, homeless, women, or housewives whose ordinary lives take a brutal, sometimes fatal twist. But in each case, a master storyteller has created new, powerful fiction that plumbs the depth and breadth of a woman’s art. 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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- Canonical title
- Women on the Case
- Original publication date
- 1996
- Disambiguation notice
- Anthology contains:
- Introduction / Sara Paretsky
- Parties unknown by the jury, or, The valour of my tongue / P.M. Carlson
- A rock and a hard place / Nancy Pickard
- Solar zits / Liza Cody
- Th... (show all)e astronomical scarf / Ruth Rendell
- On the edge / Irina Muravyova
- Nightfire / Eleanor Taylor Bland
- Beneath the lilacs / Nevada Barr
- Nothing to lose / Frances Fyfield
- The surprise of his life / Elizabeth George
- Only a woman / Amel Benaboura
- Miles to go / Dorothy Salisbury Davis
- A lesson in murder / Andrea Smith
- Miss Gibson / Linda Barnes
- Green murder / Susan Geason
- The baroness / Amanda Cross
- 7.62 / Pieke Biermann
- I'll get back to you / Susan Dunlap
- Saturday night fever / Helga Anderle
- Dreams of home / Dicey Scroggins Jackson
- Hamlet's dilemma / Linda Grant
- Lost dreams / Myriam Laurini
- A witch and her cats / Antonia Fraser
- Belladonna / Barbara Wilson
- Publicity stunts / Sara Paretsky
- The cracks in the sidewalk / Marcia Muller
- Performance crime / Lia Matera
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Mystery
- DDC/MDS
- 813.0872089287 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction Collections
- LCC
- PS648 .D4 .W54 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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- English
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