Mystery Women III: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, 1860-1979

Colleen Barnett. Poisoned Pen Press, $33.95 (720pp) ISBN 978-1-59058-049-3

For the reference shelf there is Colleen Barnett's Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Vol. III (1990-1999). With more than 500 individual entries from Cherry Aimless to Wilhelmena ""Helma"" Zukas, this tome testifies to the proliferation of female sleuths in recent mystery series.

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