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THE BIG BOOK OF FEMALE DETECTIVES

Otto Penzler (Ed.)

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction.

For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting P.I.s like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, and many more.

Otto Penzler is the editor of fourteen Vintage Crime/Black Lizard anthologies, including The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories, The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries, and, most recently, The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories. He lives in New York City, where he is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop.
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Published 2018-10-01 by Vintage

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A monumental collection. . . . [Penzler] leaves no stone unturned.

Ambitious [and] comprehensive. . . . As with previous Big Books, Penzler's dogged research has enabled him to include undeservedly obscure stories. . . . High-quality tales original to this volume, from such 21st-century masters as Daniel Stashower, Lyndsay Faye, and Jeffery Deaver, are another bonus.

If there's some star around which the mystery world orbits, it might well be Otto Penzler, who is widely considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the genre.