DANGEROUS WOMEN (Black Collection)

Seventeen of today's greatest mystery and suspense authors are featured in DANGEROUS WOMEN. Edited by Otto Penzler, an award-winning author dedicated to detective fiction, the book brings together short, electrifying masterpieces about the most deadly and seductive of women. "Most of the great women in history, as well as the most significant female literary figures, were dangerous. Perhaps not to everyone, but often to those who fell in love with them. Men have killed for dangerous women, betrayed their countries, betrayed their loved ones and themselves, given up thrones, and committed suicide. Sometimes dangerous women can even be worth that—they can be worth risking everything and giving up everything we hold dear," explains Penzler.