WOMEN ON THE CASE; Edited by Sara Paretsky Cloth and boards - 1996

New York: Delacorte Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED by Editor Sara Paretsky and two Authors (Eleanor Taylor Bland & Andrea Smith) to Charles Miner on the title page, small quarto (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over red boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with four juxtaposed women's faces by Janet Atkinson, 367 pages. Collection of 26 original short stories by female masters of mystery. Warshawski mystery INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the multi-talented New York Times best-selling author and two contributors: Eleanor Bland & Andrea Smith.<br /> <br /> Sara Paretsky (born 1947), an American author of detective fiction, is best known for her novels based on the female private investigator, V.I. Warshawski. Paretsky created her as a female response to hard-boiled detectives such as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. In 1991 the film "V.I. Warshawski" was released starring Kathleen Turner. <br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONAL COPY INSCRIBED TRIPLY. Very tight, bright, clean copy in comparable unclipped dust jacket. apart from inscriptions, no previous owner or remainder marks.