Woman Sleuth Anthology by Irene Zahava

17 Contemporary Mystery Stories by Women&ldots;

With detectives - both amateur and professional - ranging in age from nineteen to eighty-nine, these stories are destined to delight the growing number of mystery-lovers who relish the exploits of indomitable womansleiths.

Includes: Ellen Dearmore, Nancy R Herndon, Caroline Stafford, Lea Cash-Domingo, Naomi Strichartz, Lynette Prucha, Judith Post, Jacqueline Girdner, Carol Costa, Elizabeth Pincus, Gail Giles, Helen and Lori Carpenter, K T Anders, Brenda Melton Burnham, Linda Wagner and Sara Paretsky.

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From Publishers Weekly
This often disappointing assemblage of tales from female writers about female sleuths nevertheless has some entertaining moments. Judith Post's 'Partners at the Pump' offers a delightful protagonist; unaffected Charlie is as handy with a shotgun as she is with a car engine--skills she uses to help solve her mother's murder. In K. T. Anders's 'Don't Shoot, I'm on Vacation,' a burned-out CIA agent whose case has hit a dead end teaches her boss not to mess with a woman who needs a few days off. Detective Sergeant Elena Jarvis encounters a strange murder weapon when a man accuses his ex-wife of trying to kill him with an exploding escargot in Nancy R. Herndon's 'Murder by Snail.' The collection's low points include crimes that can't work: in Naomi Strichartz's 'Death on Fifty-Sixth Street' the criminal must decide to commit the murder, empty out Tylenol capsules and fill them with digitalis in the time it takes the victim to make a pot of tea. Zahava edited this volume's predecessors.
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