The Big Book of Female Detectives

Cover Also Edited By Otto Penzler Title Page Copyright Dedication Introduction THE VICTORIANS AND EDWARDIANS (BRITISH) The Mysterious Countess Anonymous The Unraveled Mystery Andrew Forrester, Jr. The Redhill Sisterhood C. L. Pirkis The Diamond Lizard George R. Sims The Stir Outside the Café Royal Clarence Rook The Mandarin Fergus Hume The Outside Ledge: A Cablegram Mystery L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace The Frewin Miniatures Emmuska Orczy Conscience Richard Marsh The Hidden Violin M. Mcdonnell Bodkin BEFORE WORLD WAR I (AMERICAN) Christabel’s Crystal Carolyn Wells The Bullet from Nowhere Hugh C. Weir An Intangible Clew Anna Katharine Green Planted James Oppenheim THE PULP ERA The Wizard’s Safe Valentine Red Hot Frederick Nebel The Domino Lady Collects Lars Anderson The Letters and the Law T. T. Flynn The Old Maids Die Whitman Chambers Too Many Clients D. B. Mccandless Rat Runaround Roger Torrey Murder with Music and Coke for Co-Eds Adolphe Barreaux Chiller-Diller Richard Sale The Passing of Anne Marsh Arthur Leo Zagat THE GOLDEN AGE The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie Diamond Cut Diamond Frederic Arnold Kummer Locked Doors Mary Roberts Rinehart The Tea-Leaf Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace The Almost Perfect Murder Hulbert Footner The Lover of St. Lys F. Tennyson Jesse Misogyny at Mougins Gilbert Frankau Introducing Susan Dare Mignon G. Eberhart The Bloody Crescendo Vincent Starrett Burglars Must Dine E. Phillips Oppenheim The Missing Character Phyllis Bentley Murder in the Movies Karl Detzer The Gilded Pupil Ethel Lina White The Case of the Hundred Cats Gladys Mitchell MID-CENTURY Murder with Flowers Q. Patrick Vacancy with Corpse H. H. Holmes The Riddle of the Black Museum Stuart Palmer Meredith’s Murder Charlotte Armstrong Flowers for an Angel Nigel Morland There’s Death for Remembrance Frances & Richard Lockridge Mom Sings an Aria James Yaffe THE MODERN ERA All the Lonely People Marcia Muller Blood Types Julie Smith A Poison That Leaves No Trace Sue Grafton Discards Faye Kellerman Spooked Carolyn G. Hart Making Lemonade Barbara Paul Louise Max Allan Collins Strung Out Sara Paretsky Beneath the Lilacs Nevada Barr Miss Gibson Linda Barnes Headaches and Bad Dreams Lawrence Block An Affair of Inconvenience Anne Perry Beaubien Deborah Morgan Double-Crossing Delancey S. J. Rozan The Shoeshine Man’s Regrets Laura Lippman Dust Up Wendy Hornsby The Case of the Parr Children Antonia Fraser Fast Jeffery Deaver BAD GIRLS The Winged Assassin L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace The Blood-Red Cross L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace The Adventure of the Carnegie Library John Kendrick Bangs The Woman from the East Edgar Wallace She Knew What to Do Joseph Shearing The Forgers Arthur B. Reeve The Meanest Man in Europe David Durham Four Square Jane Unmasked Edgar Wallace The Adventure of the Headless Statue Eugene Thomas The Madame Goes Dramatic Perry Paul Extenuating Circumstances Joyce Carol Oates Permissions Acknowledgments