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Includes suggestions for further reading, pages 353-354
A salute to the real femmes fatales of the domestic suspense genre, and the deceitful children, deranged husbands, vengeful friends, and murderous wives they unleashed. Sarah Weinman, one of today's preeminent authorities of crime fiction, brings together fourteen chilling stories by women who -- from the 1940s through the mid-1970s -- took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to revel its dark essence
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Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995. Heroine
Tyre, Nedra. A nice place to stay
Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965. Louisa, please come home
Callahan, Barbara, 1935-2009. Lavender lady
Caspary, Vera, 1899-1987. Sugar and spice
Nielsen, Helen. Don't sit under the apple tree
Hughes, Dorothy B. 1904-1993. (Dorothy Belle), Everybody needs a mink
Harrington, Joyce. Purple shroud
Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay, 1889-1955. Stranger in the car
Armstrong, Charlotte, 1905-1969. Splintered Monday
Davis, Dorothy Salisbury. Lost generation
Millar, Margaret, 1915-1994. People across the canyon
De Ford, Miriam Allen, 1888-1975. Mortmain