Women Sleuths (Academy Mystery Novellas, 1) - Softcover

Margaret Cole; Mignon Eberhart; Cornell Woolrich; Marcia Muller

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9780897331579: Women Sleuths (Academy Mystery Novellas, 1)

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ISBN 10: 0897331575 ISBN 13: 9780897331579

Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005

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Women Sleuths

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About the Author:

Bill Pronzini is simply one of the masters. He seems to have taken a crack at just about every genre: mysteries, noirish thrillers, historicals, locked-room mysteries, adventure novels, spy capers, men's action, westerns, and, of course, his masterful, long-running Nameless private detective series, now entering its fourth decade, with no signs of creative flagging. He's also ghosted several Brett Halliday short stories as Michael Shayne for Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, and has managed to collaborate with such fellow writers as John Lutz, Barry Wahlberg, Collin Wilcox and Marcia Muller. Still, if he never ventured into fiction writing, his non-fiction work, as both writer and editor, would still earn him a place in the P.I. genre's Hall of Fame.

From Publishers Weekly:

The first volume in Academy Chicago's Mystery Novella series, this collection contains four generally disappointing works. Each has an interesting plot, but with the exception of Mignon Eberhart's "Calico Dog," the key to the storyand any hint thereofis held back until a rather dry summation at the end. Characterization also drags down the work: the three stories from the '30s feature sheltered, prudish womeneven Eberhart's private eye Susan Dare, who feigns independence, is saved by her boyfriend. Muller's "Broken Men," the sole contemporary story, is less stereotypical, but suffers again from a construction that excludes the reader from involvement. December
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