The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery & Suspense Stories by Women (1983)

✍ Scribed by Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini

• Book ID: 111881308
• Publisher: Morrow
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 321 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780688024536

✦ Synopsis

Except for the work of a few legendary figures, such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, mystery and suspense fiction is thought by many readers to be largely the domain of men. The stories collected in The Web She Weaves should put any such preconceptions to rest forever.

Includes the following 23 stories:

THE LODGER—Marie Belloc Lowndes

THE DUCHESS AT PRAYER—Edith Wharton

THE MAN IN THE INVERNESS CAPE—Baroness Orczy

THE WOMAN IN THE STORE—Katherine Mansfield

MURDER IN THE FISHING CAT—Edna St. Vincent Millay

THE LIPSTICK—Mary Roberts Rinehart

POSTICHE—Mignon G. Eberhart

SUSPICION—Dorothy L. Sayers

HARLEQUIN’S LANE—Agatha Christie

HIS HEART COULD BREAK—Craig Rice

CHINOISERIE—Helen McCloy

GOOD-BYE, MISS LIZZIE BORDEN—Lillian de la Torre

McGOWNEY’S MIRACLE—Margaret Millar

ST. PATRICK’S DAY IN THE MORNING—Charlotte Armstrong

THE POSSIBILITY OF EVIL—Shirley Jackson

THE SNAIL-WATCHER—Patricia Highsmith

THE LOCKED ROOM—Celia Fremlin

THE FALL OF A COIN—Ruth Rendell

DOUBLE JEOPARDY—Susan Dunlap

MY NEIGHBOR, AY—Joyce Harrington

NORMAN AND THE KILLER—Joyce Carol Oates

CATTAILS—Marcia Muller

GREAT-AUNT ALLIE’S FLYPAPERS—P. D. James