{"product_id":"9781598534313","title":"Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s (LOA #269)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Real Lolita\u003c\/i\u003e author Sarah Weinman presents a landmark collection of 4 brilliant novels by the female pioneers of crime fiction—women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline   \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. Turning in many cases from the mean streets of the hardboiled school to explore the anxieties and terrors lurking in everyday life, these groundbreaking novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel. Their work, influential in its day and still vibrant and extraordinarily riveting today, is long overdue for rediscovery.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This volume, the second of a two-volume collector’s set, gathers four classic works that together reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage to today’s leading crime writers. From the 1950s here are \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Armstrong’s \u003ci\u003eMischief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, the nightmarish drama of a child entrusted to a psychotic babysitter, \u003cb\u003ePatricia Highsmith’s \u003ci\u003eThe Blunderer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003ebrilliantly tracking the perverse parallel lives of two men driven toward murder, \u003cb\u003eMargaret Millar’s \u003ci\u003eBeast in View\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, a relentless study in madness, and \u003cb\u003eDolores Hitchens’s \u003ci\u003eFools' Gold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, a hard-edged tale of robbery and redemption.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.","brand":"Sarah Weinman","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":48035653386452,"sku":"9781598534313","price":48.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f6970146-c74b-4bea-9726-14448aae3877.jpg?v=1780366656","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781598534313","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}