Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s (LOA

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s (LOA #268): Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall (Library of America Women Crime Writers Collection Book 1)

The Library of America and editor Sarah Weinman redefine the classic era of American crime fiction with a landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of the genre, the women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline.Â Â Â

Though women crime and suspense writers dominate todayâ€™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 first of a two-volume collectorâ€™s set, gathers four classic works that together reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage to todayâ€™s leading crime writers. From the 1940s here are Vera Casparyâ€™s famous career girl mystery Laura, Helen Eustisâ€™s intricate academic thriller The Horizontal Man, Dorothy B. Hughesâ€™s In a Lonely Place, the terrifyingly intimate portrait of a serial killer, and Elizabeth Sanxay Holdingâ€™s The Blank Wall, in which a wife in wartime is forced to take extreme measures when her family is threatened.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-09-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-09-01
Format	Kindle eBook

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s (LOA #268): Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall (Library of America Women Crime Writers Collection Book 1)

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