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Ladykillers: Crime Stories by Women
The famous figures of Albert Campion, Miss Marple, Lord Peter Wimsey and Adam Dalgliesh mingle with sharp-tongued undertakers, scheming old ladies and helpless hitchhikers in this superb collection of stories by the very best women crime writers of this century.
With their superior sense of perception and eagle-eyed observation, writers from Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers to Ruth Rendell and Patricia Highsmith have captured the multi-faceted twists of crime: the interminable tensions leading to domestic murder; unscrupulous business deals; obsessive greed; desperate loneliness and the fantastical elements of black magic. Top stories by top authors make this a spectacular baker's dozen of crime classics, displaying all the variety, subtlety -- and humour -- of this ever-popular genre.
With their superior sense of perception and eagle-eyed observation, writers from Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers to Ruth Rendell and Patricia Highsmith have captured the multi-faceted twists of crime: the interminable tensions leading to domestic murder; unscrupulous business deals; obsessive greed; desperate loneliness and the fantastical elements of black magic. Top stories by top authors make this a spectacular baker's dozen of crime classics, displaying all the variety, subtlety -- and humour -- of this ever-popular genre.
262 pages, Paperback
First published July 23, 1987
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