Women’s Wiles

Women’s Wiles

Released 1979 and 2017

ISBN-13: 978-1981833092

ISBN-10: 1981833099

Sales link (ebook only): https://books2read.com/MWAClassicsWomensWiles

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Otherwise available through bookstores via special order.

NOTHING’S WHAT IT SEEMS IN THIS SLYLY SINISTER COLLECTION OF DAMES DONE WRONG…AND DOING THE SAME!

Shocking surprises, chilling comeuppances, and mercies that are anything but tender are just part of what to expect from these memorable stories of women’s wills…and wiles. Choosing them with an eye to the dangers ever lurking in our everyday lives, acclaimed editor Michele Slung very clearly wants to play with her readers’ comfort levels—and succeeds. Among the nineteen tempting treasures she’s come up with are stories by four Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters: be prepared to be unsettled by the twists of Edward D. Hoch’s tale of burglary-turned-romance; the haunting neighbors dreamed up by Margaret Millar; Stanley Ellin’s unreliably recognized intruder; and the plight of Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s sensible housekeeper suddenly stricken with a sleuth’s awareness. Yet those are hardly all…there’s suspense for every taste with each and every compelling page-turner you’ll discover here.

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Original Cover – published in 1979

Forward by Michele Slung

Introduction by Michele Slung

“The Two Sisters” by Joyce Harrington

“Second Chance” by Edward D. Hoch

“The Greek Refrain” by Frank Sisk

“Mom Knows Best” by James Yaffe

“The Candle Flame” by Lawrence Treat

“The Kitchen Floor” by Dorothy A. Collins

“The Girl Friend” by Morris Hershman

“Double Jeopardy” by Susan Dunlap

“You Can’t Be a Little Girl All Your Life” by Stanley Ellin

“Mrs. Norris Observes” by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

“Invitation to a Murder” by Josh Pachter

“The Ransom of Retta Chiefman” by Stanley Cohen

“Medicine Woman” by Richard Deming

“The People Across the Canyon” by Margaret Millar

“The Cost of Respectability” by Kathleen Hershey

“A Matter of Pride” by Richard A. Moore

“The Raconteur” by L. Fred Ayvazian

“The Prisoner of Zemu Island” by Joan Richter

“The Book that Squealed” by Cornell Woolrich