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TROUBLED DAUGHTERS, TWISTED WIVES, by Sarah Weinman

Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives
I have never seen so many reviews of and articles about mystery anthologies, reprint or original on the Internet. I am talking about TROUBLED DAUGHTERS, TWISTED WIVES (Penguin Books, 2013) edited by first-time anthology-editor Sarah Weinman. When it was published in August, Weinman was already (and still is) famous as the knowledgeable blogger of now-almost-defunct "Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind" and now-active "Off On a Tangent". She is now the news editor for Publishers Marketplace, and writes book reviews and columns for The National Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post among others, and contributed short stories to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and a couple of anthologies.

She has opened a website specially for this anthology, "DomesticSuspense.com", to celebrate "an overlooked generation of female suspense writers." The anthology contains 14 stories "in a loose chronological order by the age of the protagonists" as follows:

"The Heroine," by Patricia Highsmith, originally published in the August 1945 issue of Harper's Bazaar, and collected in ELEVEN (UK: Heinmann, 1970; US: THE SNAIL-WATCHER AND OTHER STORIES, Doubleday, 1970)
"A Nice Place to Stay," by Nedra Tyre, originally published in the June 1970 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
"Louisa, Please Come Home," by Shirley Jackson, originally published in the May 1960 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, and collected in COME ALONG WITH ME: CLASSIC SHORT STORIES AND AN UNFINISHED NOVEL (US: Viking, 1968; UK: Michael Joseph, 1969). It was nominated for an Edgar but did NOT win!
"Lavender Lady," by Barbara Callahan, originally published in the April (NOT September) 1976 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
"Sugar adn Spice," by Vera Caspary, originally published in the December 1943 issue of The American Magazine
"Don't Sit under the Apple Tree," by Helen Nielsen, originally published in the October 1959 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (NOT Manhunt or Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)
"Everybody Needs a Mink," by Dorothy B. Hughes, originally published in the June 1965 issue of The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK; formerly The Saint Detective Magazine) and in the July 1965 issue of The Saint Mystery Magazine (US).
"The Purple Shroud," by Joyce Harrington, an Edgar winner, originally published in the September 1972 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
"The Stranger in the Car," by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, originally published in the July 1949 issue of The American Magazine
"The Splintered Monday," by Charlotte Armstrong, originally published in the March 1966 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
"Lost Generation," by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, originally published in the September 1971 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
"The People across the Canyon, " by Margaret Millar, originally published in the October 1962 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
"Mortmain," by Miriam Allen DeFord, originally published in the March 1944 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
"A Case of Maximum Need," by Celia Fremlin, originally in the March 1977 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

As you may have noticed, acknowledgment pages have some omissions and errors. I suggest young and veteran anthologists check and double-check information on first-appearances (such as which issues of which magazines stories have first appeared in) for future anthologists and "mystery scholars" as well as bibliographers (yes, there are mystery bibliographers, didn't you know?), please. Personally, I am glad that Weinman has selectied one of my friend Joyce Harrington's stories for this excellent and illuminating anthology. I wish Penguin Books would ask Weinman to edit some more sequels.

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