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women’s detective fiction
Happy Halloween from SCUA!!
In addition to our annual sharing of UNCG Ghost Stories, we wanted to show off additional fun and spooky items from our collections for Halloween! Enjoy this selection of fabulous covers from books in our American Women’s Detective Fiction Collection: Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran, & Co., 1941 Philadelphia […]
Dust Jackets to Die For
Stories of murder, suspense, and horror fill the shelves of the American Women’s Detective Fiction Collection in the Martha Blakeney Special Collections & University Archives. It is the dust jacket artists’ struggle to convey the authors’ foreboding tales of intrigue and vengeance in book covers enticing to potential readers. Sometimes, these attempts fall short of […]