title: Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Edition
author: Elizabeth A Blakesley
description: Although the first (1994) edition of this work included important women mystery authors from the 1900s through the 1980s, the new edition concentrates solely on women who have made names for themselves from 1990 to 2006. Some 30 of the 92 articles are updates, while the other 62 cover new authors. The criteria for inclusion are based on nomination for major mystery awards, commercial success, and critical acclaim. Yet newer, well-received authors, such as Tess Gerstein and Katherine Hall Page, are not included, and Joan Hess, Magdalen Nabb, and others who were in the first edition are excluded, even though they are still commercially successful and have written many new works in the last 12 years.
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  THE LADY VANISHED
  
  
  A gripping detective mystery
  
  
  
  
  
  GRETTA MULROONEY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  First published 2015
  
  
  Joffe Books, London
  
  
  www.joffebooks.com
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations,
  places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are
  used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events
  or locales is entirely coincidental. The spelling used is British English
  except where fidelity to the author’s rendering of accent or dialect
  supersedes this.
  
  
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  ©Gretta Mulrooney
  
  
  PLEASE NOTE THERE IS A GLOSSARY OF UK WORDS IN THE BACK FOR US READERS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  [CHAPTER 1](part0000_split_003.html#_Toc436742219)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 2](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc4367422