A Woman's Eye

Margaret Maron's Deborah's Judgment is a short story that anticipates the later Deborah Knott series. In compact form, it tests the voice of a young Southern lawyer against justice, place, and tangled relationships.

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Work Information

Deborah Knott's voice first takes shape within this short story.

First published in Sara Paretsky's anthology A Woman's Eye, the story introduces a character who would lead into a major series and has continued to circulate in later formats.

Review Summaries

Readers value it as a starting point for the series, offering the heroine's voice and the texture of Southern society. Even in brief form, the character's core comes through clearly.

Book Information

Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 1991-08-01
Pages: 448 pages
Language: 英語
Size: 15.24 x 3.81 x 22.23 cm
ISBN-13: 9780385300001
ISBN-10: 038530000X
Price: 2599 JPY
Category: 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery

Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction. The voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski's Chicago in a case of music and murder... to the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting... to the gang-held turf of Sharon says mum's the word. And then there are mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social workers -- ordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen through a woman's eye. From the opening tale of a girl down-and-out in London and what she steals from a corpse... to the final story of a summer vacation in the Berkshires, complete with romance and sudden death... this unique collection brings us great mystery writing that engages both our intellects and our hearts. From the Paperback edition.

Reviews

Brilliant bedtime reading

Short detective stories by women authors, many excellent. Some feel dated, but others are original and captivating. Good for ideas, too!
A Great Trolley Tour of Female Detective Fiction

I enjoyed this anthology very much. It reacquainted me with authors I haven't read in a long time, introduced me to some I hadn't read before, and let me see other authors writing about characters that are not in their usual cast. I worked in law enforcement many years ago, so I've had an interest in detective stories for decades, and this was fun to read, since the main characters are women. My usual tour experience when I arrive in a city that I haven't visited before is to take a trolley tour to get a taste of some of the major sights and highlights. Once I've had the overview, I spend the next few days re-visiting several of those venues and spending much more time than I did on the trolley tour so I can really explore and learn more about the attraction. This book was a trolley tour of some wonderful authors who write about subjects that interest me, with strong female characters and interesting plot twists. Now I'll spend some time going back and reading more books by some of those authors. Great thanks to Sara Paretsky for putting together such an interesting trolley tour!
An Enjoyable Read

I picked up this book for 2 authors that I knew -- Paretsky and Grafton -- and enjoyed extensions of their PI characters -- Warshawski and Milhone. Bu...moreI picked up this book for 2 authors that I knew -- Paretsky and Grafton -- and enjoyed extensions of their PI characters -- Warshawski and Milhone. But along the way I found some new authors to read. There are 21 short stories in this anthology (8 of which can also be found on tape (or maybe CD too). Not all of the mysteries are solved by detectives, but all are solved by women. I especially enjoyed PI Kiernan O'Shaughnessy in "Death and Diamonds" by Susan Dunlap, journalist Jemima Shore In Getting to Know You by Antonia Fraser and Annie Darling in "Her Good Name" by Carolyn Hart.
Three Stars

Good story.
Fantastic

I was just looking for short mysteries, and didn't think it mattered that these were by women. But I was wrong in a very good way. Although I have not lived the life of most of these women characters, I can see them without having to "come to understand" them. The stores are excellent and unexpected. Many of the authors were new to me and I will of the work of some of them.