Whether they are detecting crimes, avoiding them, or under great provocation, committing them, this collection of tales featuring women includes not only female sleuths, but also female criminals.

Contents:

• Introduction by Marie Smith
• “What Have You Been Doing All Day?” by Kelly H. Blau
• Bluebeard’s Bathtub [“Three Is a Lucky Number”] by Margery Allingham
• Quiet Day in the County Jail by Craig Rice
• Front Seat [“Truth Will Out”] by Ruth Rendell
• From Out of the Garden by Charlotte Armstrong
• The Girl Who Loved Graveyards by P.D. James
• Dapper Johnny Brown by Ruth McKenney
• If You See This Woman by Dolores Hitchens
• The Heroine by Patricia Highsmith
• Curses by Carol Clemeau
• Danger—Woman at Work by Miriam Allen deFord
• Hidden Springs by Barbara Callahan
• Old Friends by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
• Decision by Helen Nielsen
• Contemporary Gothic [“Miss Weird-O”] by Esther Wagner
• Sweet Baby Jenny by Joyce Harrington
• Meet Athalia Goode by Raleigh Bond
• A Goodbye Sound by Florence V. Mayberry