CRIME FROM THE MIND OF A WOMAN by George, Elizabeth ISBN 0340819685

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Elizabeth George has compiled a collection of 26 crime stories from some of the 20th-century's best women writers. All the stories share a desire to explore mankind in a moment on the edge.

Why exists this fascination with crime and why, above all, exists this fascination with crime on the part of female writers? Bestselling novelist Elizabeth George poses this question in her Introduction, answers it with her customary elegance and illustrates it with a rich and varied collection of international writers, some household names; others buried treasures waiting to be rediscovered. The stories have locations as diverse as Africa and the Caribbean, London and Los Angeles, San Francisco and Switzerland. Some are modern; some period. Some feature well-known sleuths - Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, Jemina Shore - or notorious villains - Jack the Ripper; others are tales of 'ordinary' people caught up in out of the ordinary events. All of them share in common a desire to explore mankind in a moment on the edge. The edge equates to the crime committed. How the characters deal with the edge is the story.

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[edit] Title

CRIME FROM THE MIND OF A WOMAN

[edit] Author

George, Elizabeth

[edit] ISBN

0340819685

[edit] Published

02/05/2002

[edit] Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

[edit] Binding

hardback

[edit] Retail Price

18.99 (GBP)

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18.99 (GBP)

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