Originally published under the title: Crime from the mind of a woman

A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Man who knew how / Dorothy L. Sayers -- I can find my way out / Ngaio Marsh -- Summer people / Shirley Jackson -- St. Patrick's Day in the morning / Charlotte Armstrong -- Purple is everything / Dorothy Salisbury Davis -- Money to burn / Margery Allingham -- A nice place to stay / Nedra Tyre -- Clever and quick / Christianna Brand -- Country lovers / Nadine Gordimer -- Irony of hate / Ruth Rendell -- Sweet baby Jenny / Joyce Harrington -- Wild mustard / Marcia Muller -- Jemima Shore at the sunny grove / Antonia Fraser -- Case of the Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky -- Afraid all the time / Nancy Pickard -- Young shall see visions, and the old dream dreams / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- A predatory woman / Sharyn McCrumb -- Jack be quick / Barbara Paul -- Ghost station / Carolyn Wheat -- New moon and rattlesnakes / Wendy Hornsby -- Death of a snowbird / J.A. Jance -- River mouth / Lia Matera -- A scandal in winter / Gillian Linscott -- Murder-two / Joyce Carol Oates -- English autumn--American fall / Minette Walters