Troubled daughters, twisted wives : stories from the trailblazers of domestic suspense
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references.

A salute to the real femmes fatales of the domestic suspense genre, and the deceitful children, deranged husbands, vengeful friends, and murderous wives they unleashed. Sarah Weinman, one of today's preeminent authorities of crime fiction, brings together fourteen chilling stories by women who -- from the 1940s through the mid-1970s -- took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to revel its dark essence.

Collects fourteen tales of murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends.