Women crime writers. Four suspense novels of the 1950s
2015
Book
These four stories examine isolated crimes within society that not only breed murder but destructive suspicions. Second in a two-volume collection of suspense novels written by female authors in the 1940s and 1950s.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781598534313
Description: 710 pages ; 21 cm.
Other Title: Four suspense novels of the 1950s
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
- Mischief / Charlotte Armstrong
- The blunderer / Particia Highsmith
- Beast in view / Margaret Millar
- Fool's gold / Dolores Hitchens.
LCCN: 2014959890
Control Number: 3348367
Publisher: New York : The Library of America, [2015]Series:
Subjects:
- American fiction -- 20th century.
- American fiction -- Women authors.
- Babysitters -- Fiction.
- Fugitives from justice -- Fiction.
- Kidnapping -- Fiction.
- Nineteen fifties -- Fiction.
- Prank telephone calls -- Fiction.
- Strangers -- Fiction.
- Suburban life -- Fiction.
- Theft -- Fiction.
- Uxoricide -- Fiction.
- Women authors -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- container of (work): Armstrong, Charlotte, 1905-1969. Mischief.
- container of (work): Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995. Blunderer.
- container of (work): Hitchens, Dolores, 1907-1973. Fool's gold.
- container of (work): Hitchens, Dolores, 1907-1973. Fools' gold.
- container of (work): Millar, Margaret, 1915-1994. Beast in view.