Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense, (Paperback)

from RidgewayGirl

This is a collection of stories edited by Sarah Weinman and written by the first female mystery authors writing for the pulp magazines from the early 1940s to the mid-1970s. Usually anthologies are a mixed bag, where a successful collection holds a few memorable gems and not to many lackluster en...

from Dorritt

As others have said, this collection of 14 stories is meant to shed light on a largely forgotten literary genre, so-called "domestic mysteries" - stories that draw their suspense from the uniquely strained and fraught interactions that occur within families. No gumshoes (a la Hammett), no feisty ...

from jen.e.moore

The stories themselves were good but pretty pulpy (lots of shocker! twist! endings!), but the editor's introductions were awful. Biographical sketches so vague as to be meaningless, stories introduced with detailed summaries that spoiled the shocker! twist! endiings! so as to make them even less ...

from DeltaQueen50

Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives is a wonderful collection of fourteen short stories, all written by women, featuring women protagonists and with a delicious darkness oozing from each story. Authors Shirley Jackson, Charlotte Johnson, Vera Caspary and many others contribute to the high quality o...

from DeltaQueen50

Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives is a wonderful collection of fourteen short stories, all written by women, featuring women protagonists and with a delicious darkness oozing from each story. Authors Shirley Jackson, Charlotte Johnson, Vera Caspary and many others contribute to the high quality o...