Women Sleuths — Academy Mystery Novellas, Vol. 1

Edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Bill Pronzini

Academy Chicago Publishers, 1985 (1991 Reader's Digest reprint)

Paperback, 224 pages | ISBN: 0-89733-157-5

Four mystery novellas collecting some of the genre's finest women detectives:

G.D.H. & Margaret Cole — The Toys of Death

Mignon Eberhart — The Calico Dog

Cornell Woolrich — The Book That Squealed

Marcia Muller — The Broken Men (Sharon McCone)

Condition: Good+. Cover is clean and bright with strong black-and-white design. Corner chip to top-right of front cover. Pages lightly tanned at edges, binding tight. Interior clean with no writing or stamps noted.

A solid reading copy of a scarce novella anthology featuring classic 1930s mystery writers alongside Muller's hard-boiled Sharon McCone. Cornell Woolrich completists take note.