The Big Book of Female Detectives | 
This volume has been in my TBR for ages. I was starting to remember the stories in Bibliomysteries edited by the same author, so I switched to this volume.The introduction by O.P. tells the history of the female detective in literature, which was fascinating.The book is divided by eras- the first being “The Victorians and the Edwardians (British).” I just finished the first story in this section, “The Mysterious Countess,” quite a fun read.
Now that I finished Miss Marple‘s short stories, I have turned to this big tome. It too will be beside my bed for occasional night time reading for several months! It covers 150 years of such mystery stories.
#TBRtemptation post 3! On this massive anthology, edited by the mystery genre‘s legendary Otto Penzler (owner of #NYC‘s Mysterious Bookshop), you‘ll find 74 stories spanning 150 years of publication, all of them having females in the starring roles, whether groundbreaking police officers to hard-boiled P.I.s. Christie, Lippman, Paretsky, Orczy, Grafton, are among those who have stories included. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
pickThis big book (1136 pages) is collection of short stories (and few novellas) over the past 150 years, where main character is female trying to resolve some kind of mystery, murder, robbery ... Each story begins with short introduction of the author and where/when story was first published. I didn‘t enjoy in all of them, but the collection as a whole is very interesting and good overview of female characters (and their development) in this genre.
While waiting for my friend, I‘m going to do some readathoning.
#24in28 #readathon
I hope that he didn‘t expected some royalties ...
Seeing reading progress in the long, big book is so incredibly satisfying‼️
Big book for looong night (first book for #Booked2019), while we are waiting for neighbors to burn all the firecrackers in the world 😠😡🤬
@hermyknee #readinthenewyear #currentlyreading
pickI didn‘t read all of the stories but this was such a fun book!!
It is completely reasonable to start this gigantic 1111 page book while also currently reading 5 other books, right?
Just preordered the tagged book - as an ebook, this looks like a chunkster. Can't wait.
