Sara Paretsky (ed.): A Woman's Eye (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
"All new stories... all women writers... all female sleuths." -- Booklist
SARA PARETSKY ▪ SUE GRAFTON ▪ MARCIA MULLER ▪ SUSAN DUNLAP ▪ CAROLYN HART
Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction. The voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski's Chicago in a case of music and murder... to the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting... to the gang-held turf of Sharon McCone's San Francisco, where an eyewitness to a slaying says mum's the word.

ANTONIA FRASER ▪ DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS ▪ AMANDA CROSS ▪ NANCY PICKARD ▪ DOROTHY B. HUGHES
And then there are mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social workers -- ordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen through a woman's eye. From the opening tale of a girl down-and-out in London and what she steals from a corpse... to the final story of a summer vacation in the Berkshires, complete with romance and sudden death... this unique collection brings us great mystery writing that engages both our intellects and our hearts.

AND ELEVEN MORE OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS

Sara Paretsky (ed.): A Woman's Eye. Twenty-One Stories. Dell Publishing Group, ISBN: 0440213355 (October, 1992), $4.99.

Sara Paretsky (ed.): A Woman's Eye (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
In her insightful introduction to this collection of original mystery stories, Sara Paretsky writes, "This book gathers together a sample of what women have to say about women in the final decade of our century." It begins with Liza Cody's "Lucky Dip" in which a young homeless woman must cope with life on the street. It ends with another young girl in a different situation: Emma, who in Dorothy B. Hughes's "That Summer at Quichiquois," must sort out the passions of the adults around her. In between, we see women with a range of problems. Nancy Pickard takes a new look at jealousy and possessiveness in "The Scar." Kinsey Millhone, Sharon McCone, Kieran O'Shaughnessy, Lonia Guiu, and V. I. Warshawski solve cases that are far from conventional. Famous amateurs like Jemima Shore, Julie Hayes, and Kate Fansler are here, and along with them mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, social workers. Carolyn Wheat's new heroine, New York City transit cop Maureen Gallagher, struggles with sobriety and authority, and Mary Wings's "Kill the Man for Me" will provoke discussion: how far is it possible to go in seeking justice or revenge? Twenty-one different stories, twenty-one distinct voices present the best in contemporary crime through a woman's eye.

The writers in the collection are: Liza Cody, Amanda Cross, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Susan Dunlap, Antonia Fraser, Sue Grafton, Carolyn Hart, Dorothy B. Hughes, Faye Kellerman, Margaret Maron, Marcia Muller, Maria Antonia Oliver, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, Shelley Singer, Gillian Slovo, Julie Smith, Marilyn Wallace, Carolyn Wheat, Barbara Wilson, and Mary Wings.

Sara Paretsky (ed.): A Woman's Eye. 21 new Stories. Featuring the finest female sleuths by the best women crime writers ever. Delacorte Press, ISBN: 038530000X (August, 1991), 448 p., $19.00.