The Big Book of Female Detectives by Otto Penzler audiobook

The Big Book of Female Detectives

By Otto Penzler
Read by Amy Landon and Paul Woodson

Highbridge Audio 9780525434740

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9781665179720

  • ISBN: 9781665179737

Runtime: 63.09 Hours
Category: Fiction/Mystery & Detective
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction.

Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising listeners in equal measure. The handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting PIs like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Laura Lippman, and many more.

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Author Bio: Otto Penzler

Author Bio: Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher of The Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a two-time Edgar Award–winner and the recipient of the Ellery Queen Award. A New York Times bestselling editor of numerous anthologies, his work includes Murder for Love, Murder for Revenge, Murder and Obsession, The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. He lives in New York City.

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Available Formats : Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Mystery & Detective
Runtime: 63.09
Audience: Adult
Language: English