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From the pages of the world's two most acclaimed mystery magazines, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, here are fifteen stories of women sleuths -- stories that have helped transform the conventions of the genre. Numerous best-selling and award-winning writers comprise this entertaining collection, many of who appear here for the first time in this book. From cops to private eyes in extraordinary situations, these heroines face danger and solve crimes with daring and panache. Some of them are old friends, while others are introduced here for the first time. Amanda Cross's Kate Fansler looks into the disappearance of a fellow professor; Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore, TV journalist and investigator, is hired by a newlywed to find his missing bride; Patricia McGerr's Selena Mead, government agent, plays the dual role of victim and level-headed operative in an exciting thriller; Sara Paretsky's widely renowned V. I. Warshawski gets involved in a complicated game, literally; Ruth Rendell's heroine undergoes a liberation from her former self; and Mary Higgins Clark highlights the heroic side of womankind in her story of a stewardess and a stowaway. From mystery to thriller, to the "lighter side" of the genre, these exciting stories will thrill and delight mystery fans, both male and female alike. This rich collection is thoughtfully chosen to represent the best of this fascinating and compelling genre.… (más)
This collection consists of crime/ mystery short stories that (a) were written by women and (b) feature female detectives. All of the stories originally had appeared in either Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine or Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. With one exception, the stories were published between the late 1970s and 1990.
I found the stories to be, on the whole, uninteresting and of ordinary to mediocre quality. While any such collection is bound to be mixed in nature, in Women of Mystery #1 none of the stories stood out to me in quality -- this despite the inclusion of various respectable names in crime fiction (Rendell, Fraser, Clark, Paretsky).
One of those that I ranked the highest (3 stars) was "A Little More Research" (by Joan Hess), a clever one whose text consists of the attempts at writing by a prospective author who is constantly interrupted... and whose resultant crime is documented in her prose. Another one I'd ranked at this level was a contribution from Mary Higgins Clark from 1958, a suspense story in which a stewardess helps smuggle a young political dissident out of a country aboard the airline on which she serves.
Below are the stories included, with my rankings (on a scale of zero to 5 *s).
"Stowaway" (by Mary Higgins Clark): 3* "Constitution Street" (by Janet Stockey) 1* "A Pair of Yellow Lilies" (by Ruth Rendell) 1* "Discards" (by Faye Kellerman) 0* "The Girl Who Wanted to See Venice" (by Antonia Fraser) 2.5* "Chain of Terror" (by Patricia McGerr) 3* "Tania's No Where" (by Amanda Cross) 0* "Old Friends" (by Salisbury Davis) 1* "A Case for Clara Cates" (by Carolyn Jensen Watts) 1* "Guilt Feelings" (by Celia Fremlin) 2.5* "A Little More Research" (by Joan Hess) 3* "The Upstairs Flat" (by Elizabeth A. Dalton) 2* "The Takamoku Joseki" (by Sara Paretsky) 1.5* "Digby's First Case" (by Anne Perry) 1.5* "Night Vision" (by BK Stevens) 1.5* ( )
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The world's two leading mystery magazines, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine have published a wide variety of short stories, including hundreds of stories that feature strong female characters. (Introduction by Cynthia Manson)
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From the pages of the world's two most acclaimed mystery magazines, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, here are fifteen stories of women sleuths -- stories that have helped transform the conventions of the genre. Numerous best-selling and award-winning writers comprise this entertaining collection, many of who appear here for the first time in this book. From cops to private eyes in extraordinary situations, these heroines face danger and solve crimes with daring and panache. Some of them are old friends, while others are introduced here for the first time. Amanda Cross's Kate Fansler looks into the disappearance of a fellow professor; Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore, TV journalist and investigator, is hired by a newlywed to find his missing bride; Patricia McGerr's Selena Mead, government agent, plays the dual role of victim and level-headed operative in an exciting thriller; Sara Paretsky's widely renowned V. I. Warshawski gets involved in a complicated game, literally; Ruth Rendell's heroine undergoes a liberation from her former self; and Mary Higgins Clark highlights the heroic side of womankind in her story of a stewardess and a stowaway. From mystery to thriller, to the "lighter side" of the genre, these exciting stories will thrill and delight mystery fans, both male and female alike. This rich collection is thoughtfully chosen to represent the best of this fascinating and compelling genre.
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I found the stories to be, on the whole, uninteresting and of ordinary to mediocre quality. While any such collection is bound to be mixed in nature, in Women of Mystery #1 none of the stories stood out to me in quality -- this despite the inclusion of various respectable names in crime fiction (Rendell, Fraser, Clark, Paretsky).
One of those that I ranked the highest (3 stars) was "A Little More Research" (by Joan Hess), a clever one whose text consists of the attempts at writing by a prospective author who is constantly interrupted... and whose resultant crime is documented in her prose. Another one I'd ranked at this level was a contribution from Mary Higgins Clark from 1958, a suspense story in which a stewardess helps smuggle a young political dissident out of a country aboard the airline on which she serves.
Below are the stories included, with my rankings (on a scale of zero to 5 *s).
"Stowaway" (by Mary Higgins Clark): 3*
"Constitution Street" (by Janet Stockey) 1*
"A Pair of Yellow Lilies" (by Ruth Rendell) 1*
"Discards" (by Faye Kellerman) 0*
"The Girl Who Wanted to See Venice" (by Antonia Fraser) 2.5*
"Chain of Terror" (by Patricia McGerr) 3*
"Tania's No Where" (by Amanda Cross) 0*
"Old Friends" (by Salisbury Davis) 1*
"A Case for Clara Cates" (by Carolyn Jensen Watts) 1*
"Guilt Feelings" (by Celia Fremlin) 2.5*
"A Little More Research" (by Joan Hess) 3*
"The Upstairs Flat" (by Elizabeth A. Dalton) 2*
"The Takamoku Joseki" (by Sara Paretsky) 1.5*
"Digby's First Case" (by Anne Perry) 1.5*
"Night Vision" (by BK Stevens) 1.5* (