Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Women Crime Writers | 2015 | Sarah Weinman | Buy |
| 2 | Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s | 2015 | Sarah Weinman | N/A |
| 3 | Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s | 2015 | Sarah Weinman | N/A |
The Women Crime Writers: Library of America series is a three-volume collection edited by Sarah Weinman and published in 2015. It brings together classic suspense and crime fiction by women writers who were popular in their time but later fell out of print.
The collection is split into two era-based volumes: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s and Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s, with a combined edition also available. These books rescued important works from obscurity and introduced contemporary readers to writers like Vera Caspary, Dorothy B. Hughes, and Margaret Millar. The project helped renew interest in women’s contributions to mid-century crime and suspense fiction.