Dangerous Women: Original Stories from Today’s Greatest Suspense Writers edited by Otto Penzler

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Editor: Otto Penzler
• Title: Dangerous Women: Original Stories from Today's Greatest Suspense Writers
• Publisher: ‎ Mysterious Press; First Printing (January 5, 2005)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Library Binding – 363 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0892960043
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0892960040
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.15 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.5 x 1.3 x 8.25 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good (Former library book; may include the markings and stickers associated from the library. May show signs of wear or minor discoloration on pages / page edges). 
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good (Plastic Library Dust Jacket)
• Edition: First Printing

Synopsis:

Prepare to meet the most seductively female and the most shockingly fatal of femmes fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today's finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction.

Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere.

In "Third Party," Jay McInerney takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night with a party girl built for speed and sin…"Rendezvous," Nelson DeMille's first short story in twenty-five years, plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the bloodiest scourge of this man's army is no man at all…back in the U.S.A. of "Louly and Pretty Boy," Elmore Leonard introduces a Depression-era teenage gun moll who loves Pretty Boy Floyd more than she likes knocking off filling stations…and Michael Connelly's colorful and ironic "Cielo Azul" shows how a nameless woman left dead on a Los Angeles hillside can be the most lethal prey of all. These and a bevy of other very bad girls cast their criminal spells through the powerful voices of Lorenzo Carcaterra, Joyce Carol Oates, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffery Deaver, J. A. Jance, Andrew Klavan, Laura Lippman, Ed McBain, Walter Mosley, Anne Perry, Ian Rankin, and S. J. Rozan in stories as irresistible as the antiheroines that blaze through their pages.

About the Editor:

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop (www.mysteriousbookshop.com) in New York City and is regarded as the world's foremost authority on crime, mystery and suspense fiction. He founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, which he later sold to Warner Books (1989). He reacquired the imprint in 2010 and it now publishes original books as an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and both original works and classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com (www.mysteriouspress.com), in partnership with Open Road Integrated Media.

Penzler is a prolific editor, and has won two Edgar Awards, for Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection in 1977 and The Lineup in 2010. The Mystery Writers of America awarded him the prestigious Ellery Queen Award in 1994 and the Raven–the group's highest non-writing award–in 2003.