Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives : : Stories From the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense

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Includes suggestions for further reading, pages 353-354.
The heroine / Patricia Highsmith -- A nice place to stay / Nedra Tyre -- Louisa, please come home / Shirley Jackson -- Lavender lady / Barbara Callahan -- Sugar and spice / Vera Caspary -- Don't sit under the apple tree / Helen Nielsen -- Everybody needs a mink / Dorothy B. Hughes -- The purple shroud / Joyce Harrington -- The stranger in the car / Elisabeth Sanxay Holding -- The splintered Monday / Charlotte Armstrong -- Lost generation / Dorothy Salisbury Davis -- The people across the canyon / Margaret Millar -- Mortmain / Miriam Allen Deford -- A case of maximum need / Celia Fremlin.
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.
Contents: Heroine. -- A nice place to stay. -- Louisa, please come home. -- Lavender lady. -- Sugar and spice. -- Don't sit under the apple tree. -- Everybody needs a mink. -- Purple shroud. -- Stranger in the car. -- Splintered Monday. -- Lost generation. -- People across the canyon. -- Mortmain. -- A case of maximum need.

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