A Moment On the Edge : 100 Years of Crime Stories By Women

A Moment on the Edge 100 YEARS OF CRIME STORIES BY WOMEN Edited by Elizabeth George

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: ELIZABETH GEORGE

v

A Jury of Her Peers SUSAN GLASPELL

1

The Man Who Knew How DOROTHY L. SAYERS

27

I Can Find My Way Out NGAIO MARSH

45

The Summer People SHIRLEY JACKSON

75

St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG

93

The Purple Is Everything DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

119

Money to Burn MARGERY ALLINGHAM

133

A Nice Place to Stay NEDRA TYRE

147

Clever and Quick CHRISTIANNA BRAND

161

Country Lovers NADINE GORDIMER

177

The Irony of Hate RUTH RENDELL

189

Sweet Baby Jenny JOYCE HARRINGTON

207

Wild Mustard MARCIA MULLER

229

Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave ANTONIA FRASER

241

The Case of the Pietro Andromache SARA PARETSKY

279

Afraid All the Time NANCY PICKARD

309

The Young Shall See Visions, and the Old Dream Dreams

KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH

327

A Predatory Woman SHARYN McCRUMB

349

Jack Be Quick BARBARA PAUL

363

Ghost Station CAROLYN WHEAT

399

New Moon and Rattlesnakes WENDY HORNSBY

417

Death of a Snowbird J. A. JANCE

437

The River Mouth LIA MATERA

459

A Scandal in Winter GILLIAN LINSCOTT

475

Murder-Two JOYCE CAROL OATES

505

English Autumn — American Fall MINETTE WALTERS

533

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