Lady on the Case: 22 Female Detective Stories
by Marcia Muller (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Bill Pronzini (Editor & Contributor)
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Marcia Muller, novelist, short-story writer and anthologist, was born in Detroit in 1944. She attended the University of Michigan, where she studied writing. Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977) was her first book featuring Sharon McCone, a female private eye strong enough to compete in the male-dominated crime genre. In 1993, Muller was given the show more Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award, and the following year her novel Wolf in the Shadows won the Anthony Boucher Award and was nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Crime Novel. Muller is the co-author of the Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery series with Bill Pronzini. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 - June 25, 2011) was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books; he was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Some of his anthologies included: Past Imperfect (2001), Once Upon a Galaxy show more (2002) and Sirius: The Dog Star (2004). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Bill Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California on April 13, 1943. His first novel, The Stalker, was published in 1971. He is best known for his creation of the Nameless Detective Mystery series, as well as several westerns and novels of dark suspense. He has been a full time writer since 1969. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more show more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. He has won numerous awards including three Shamus Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Mystery Writers of America. His book Snowbound received the Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere, as the best crime novel published in France in 1988. Pronzini has established himself as a master of the Western novel as well as earning a name for himself in the dark fiction genre. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Lady on the Case: 22 Female Detective Stories
- Disambiguation notice
- Stories included:
The Murder at Troyte's Hill by C.L. Pirkis
The Man in the Inverness Cape by Baroness Orczy
Death in the Sun by G.D.H. and Margaret Cole
The Second Bullet by Anna Katharine Green
The Stripp... (show all)er by Anthony Boucher
The Claret Stick by Mignon Eberhart
The Four Suspects by Agatha Christie
The Broken Men by Marcia Muller
The Invisible Intruder by Edward D. Hoch
A Date in Helsinki by Patricia McGerr
The Dancing Detective by Cornell Woolrich
Lucky Penny by Linda Barnes
The Fuzzy Things by D.B. Olsen
Coyote and Quarter-Moon by Bill Pronzini and Jeffrey Wallmann
At the Old Swimming Hole by Sara Paretsky
Mom Sheds a Tear by James Yaffe
Daisy Bell by Gladys Mitchell
Solo Job by Paul Gallico
Not Before My Morning Coffee by Susan Dunlap
Mrs. Norris Observes by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
The Parker Shotgun by Sue Grafton
Murder on Wheels by Stuart Palmer
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- Fiction and Literature, Mystery
- DDC/MDS
- 813.087208 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction Collections
- LCC
- PS648 .D4 .L3 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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