First edition cover of The So Blue Marble (1940) by Dorothy Hughes
1940
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: The Girl Who Had to Die
Dorothy B. Hughes: The So Blue Marble
Dorothy B. Hughes: The Cross-Eyed Bear
1941
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: Speak of the Devil
Lenore Glen Offord: The Nine Dark Hours
1942
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: Kill Joy
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: Lady Killer
Dorothy B. Hughes: The Fallen Sparrow
First edition cover of Laura
1943
Charlotte Armstrong: The Case of the Weird Sisters
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: The Old Battle Ax
Dorothy B. Hughes: The Blackbirder
Margaret Millar: Wall of Eyes
Lenore Glen Offord: Skeleton Key
1944
Leigh Brackett: No Good from a Corpse
Dorothy B. Hughes: The Delicate Ape
Margaret Millar: Fire Will Freeze
Craig Rice: Home Sweet Homicide
1945
Vera Caspary: Bedelia
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: Net of Cobwebs
M. V. Heberden: Vicious Pattern
Dorothy B. Hughes: Dread Journey
Margaret Millar: The Iron Gates
First edition cover of The Blank Wall
First edition cover of In a Lonely Place
1946
Charlotte Armstrong: The Unsuspected
Helen Eustis: The Horizontal Man
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: The Innocent Mrs. Duff
Dorothy B. Hughes: Ride the Pink Horse
1947
M. V. Heberden: They Can’t All Be Guilty
Dorothy B. Hughes: In a Lonely Place
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: The Blank Wall
Hilda Lawrence: The House
Lenore Glen Offord: My True Love Lies
1948
Charlotte Armstrong: The Chocolate Cobweb
Mildred B. Davis: The Room Upstairs
Edna Sherry: Sudden Fear
1949
Dorothy Salisbury Davis: The Judas Cat
Juanita Sheridan: The Chinese Shop
First edition cover of Gold Coast Nocturne (1952) by Helen Nielsen
First edition cover of Mischief
1950
Patricia Highsmith: Strangers on a Train
Dorothy B. Hughes: The Candy Kid
Dana Lyon: The Tentacles
Margaret Millar: Do Evil in Return
1951
Dorothy Salisbury Davis: A Gentle Murderer
M. V. Heberden: The Sleeping Witness
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: Too Many Bottles
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: The Virgin Huntress
Helen Nielsen: The Kind Man
Juanita Sheridan: The Kahuna Killer
1952
Dorothy Salisbury Davis: The Clay Hand
Dorothy Salisbury Davis: A Town of Masks
Dolores Hitchens: Nets to Catch the Wind
Dorothy B. Hughes: The Davidian Report
Margaret Millar: Rose’s Last Summer
Margaret Millar: Vanish in an Instant
Helen Nielsen: Gold Coast Nocturne
Helen Nielsen: Obit Delayed
Juanita Sheridan: The Mamo Murders
Nedra Tyre: Mouse in Eternity
1953
Mildred B. Davis: They Buried A Man
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: Widow’s Mite
Helen Nielsen: Detour
Juanita Sheridan: The Waikiki Widow
First edition cover of Beast In View
First edition cover of The Blunderer
1954
Helen Eustis: The Fool Killer
Dolores Hitchens: Beat Back the Tide
Helen Nielsen: The Woman on the Roof
Jean Potts: Go, Lovely Rose
Patricia Highsmith: The Blunderer
Holly Roth: The Mask of Glass
1955
Charlotte Armstrong: The Dream Walker
Dolores Hitchens: Sleep with Strangers
Margaret Millar: Beast In View
Helen Nielsen: Stranger in the Dark
Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Holly Roth: The Sleeper
1956
Charlotte Armstrong: A Dram of Poison
Margot Bennett: The Man Who Didn’t Fly
Jean Potts: The Diehard
Helen Nielsen: The Crime Is Murder
Edna Sherry: Backfire
1957
Leigh Brackett: An Eye for an Eye
Leigh Brackett: Tiger Among Us
Elizabeth Fenwick: Poor Harriet
Margaret Millar: An Air That Kills
Helen Nielsen: Borrow the Night
Evelyn Piper: Bunny Lake Is Missing
Patricia Highsmith: Deep Water
First edition cover of Lightning Strikes Twice (1958) by Jean Potts
First edition cover of Fools’ Gold
1958
Jean Potts: Lightning Strikes Twice
Patricia Highsmith: A Game for the Living
1959
Elizabeth Fenwick: A Long Way Down
Dolores Hitchens: The Watcher
Margaret Millar: The Listening Walls
Helen Nielsen: The Fifth Caller
Helen Nielsen: False Witness
Lenore Glen Offord: Walking Shadow
1960
Dolores Hitchens: Sleep with Slander
Margaret Millar: A Stranger in My Grave
Helen Nielsen: Sing Me a Murder
Holly Roth (as K. G. Ballard): Bar Sinister
Nedra Tyre: Hall of Death
Patricia Highsmith: This Sweet Sickness
First edition cover of Hall of Death (1960) by Nedra Tyre
1961
Anne Blaidsell: Nightmare
Suzanne Blanc: The Green Stone
Dolores Hitchens: Footsteps in the Night
Vin Packer: Something in the Shadows
1962
Charlotte Armstrong: Something Blue
Dolores Hitchens: The Abductor
Margaret Millar: How Like an Angel
Vin Packer: Intimate Victims
Jean Potts: The Evil Wish
Patricia Highsmith: The Cry of the Owl
1963
Charlotte Armstrong: A Little Less Than Kind
Elizabeth Fenwick: The Make-Believe Man
Dorothy B. Hughes: The Expendable Man
Dana Lyon: Spin the Web Tight
1964
Amanda Cross: In The Last Analysis
Mildred B. Davis: The Voice on the Telephone
Emma Lathen: Accounting For Murder
Dana Lyon: The Trusting Victim
Margaret Millar: The Fiend
Helen Nielsen: Verdict Suspended
Patricia Highsmith: The Two Faces of January
Patricia Highsmith: The Glass Cell
First edition cover of The Pale Betrayer (1965) by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
1965
Dorothy Salisbury Davis: The Pale Betrayer
Patricia Highsmith: The Story-Teller
Dolores Hitchens (as Dolan Birkley): The Unloved
1966
Lilian Jackson Braun: The Cat Who Read Backwards
Mildred B. Davis: The Sounds of Insects
Lois Duncan: Point of Violence
Dorothy Gilman: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Helen Nielsen: After Midnight
Jean Potts: The Footsteps on the Stairs
1967
Charlotte Armstrong: The Gift Shop
Amanda Cross: The James Joyce Murder
Mildred B. Davis: Strange Corner
Mildred B. Davis: Walk Into Yesterday
Emma Lathen: Murder Against the Grain
Helen Nielsen: A Killer in the Street
Patricia Highsmith: Those Who Walk Away
1968
Charlotte Armstrong: The Balloon Man
Charlotte Armstrong: Lemon in the Basket
Jean Potts: The Little Lie
Dorothy Uhnak: The Bait
1969
Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Where the Dark Streets Go
Patricia Highsmith: The Tremor of Forgery
Emma Lathen: When In Greece
Dorothy Uhnak: The Witness
First edition cover of Ripley Under Ground (1970) by Patricia Highsmith
UK edition cover of The Tremor of Forgery (1969) by Patricia Highsmith
1970
Amanda Cross: Poetic Justice
Margaret Millar: Beyond This Point Are Monsters
Patricia Highsmith: Ripley Under Ground
Dorothy Uhnak: The Ledger
1971
Nedra Tyre: Twice So Fair
1972
Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Shock Wave
1973
Dorothy Salisbury Davis: The Little Brothers
1974
Patricia Highsmith: Ripley’s Game
1975
Mary Higgins Clark: Where Are The Children?
Mildred B. Davis: Tell Them What’s-Her-Name Called
Sarah Weinman is widely recognized as a leading authority on crime fiction. She is the editor of Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense, which the Los Angeles Review of Books called “simply one of the most significant anthologies of crime fiction, ever.” She is the news editor for Publishers Marketplace, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the National Post, and The Washington Post, among other publications.