(April 1967)

                   aka   eadlier Than the Male

From the files of Ellery Queen
Here is a hair-raising collection of stories about women who killed...who killed for money...who killed out of jealousy...who killed for the sheer love of killing. Mothers. Daughters. Wives. Girl friends. Schoolgirls. Hardened gun molls. Murderers all!
Read about: The mother who murdered her son's wife. The beautiful pistol-packing hillbilly who made Dillinger look like Casper Milquetoast. The schoolgirl killers who even went Leopold and Loeb one better. And dozens of other horrifying tales.

Contents:

• "Trail of the Lonesome Hearts" (originally "The Trail of Lonely Hearts" American Weekly March 23. 1958)
• "Witness for the Prosecution" (originally "Mother Against Son" American Weekly March 30. 1958)
• "Detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure" (originally "Death Keeps a Diary" American Weekly March 9. 1958)
• "The Secret of Irene Schroeder" (originally "The Secret of Iron Irene" American Weekly March 16. 1958)
• "The Beautiful Latvian" (originally "The Forgetful Blonde" American Weekly May.18 1958 )
• "The Mystery of the Yellow Thread" (originally "The Case of a Killer Who Was Caught by a Thread" American Weekly March 1. 1959)
• "The Strange Case of Elaine Soule" (originally "The Killer Who Wanted to be Caught" American Weekly April 12. 1958 )
• "The Dream Detective" (originally "She Dreamt of Murder" American Weekly April. 20 1958 )
• "Death in the Tea Leaves"  (American Weekly March 2. 1958)
• "The Man With the Jug Ears" (originally "Album of Death" 1959)
• "The Girl in the Snow Bank" (originally "The Boomerang Murder"  American Weekly February 23. 1958  )
• "The Poison Whiskey Case" (originally "A Tiny Bottle Full of Death" American Weekly February 15. 1959)
• "The Amazing Mrs. Patterson" (originally "Mrs. Patterson's Past" American Weekly February 16. 1958 )
• "The Silk Stocking Girl" (originally "Death in Silk Stockings" American Weekly May 4. 1958)
• "The Hanging Woman"  (American Weekly May 11, 1958)
• "The Murder Without a Body" (originally "The Case of the Experimental Corpse" (American Weekly February 22. 1959)
• "The Beautiful Killer of Hampstead" (originally "Death of a Part-Time Lover" American Weekly June 1. 1958)
• "The Temple of Love" (originally "Death in the Temple of Love" American Weekly May 25. 1958)
• "The Mystery of Rhonda Bell Martin" (originally "Mrs. Martin's Murder Spree" American Weekly April 27. 1958)
  
  
  

  
Above: The first of the series in American Weekly of February 16, 1958

Allegedly financially rewarding work Manny did, dating back to 1952 when the editors of American Weekly began providing him with the investigative files of several true-crime cases, which he turned into short essays.

These stories were all published originally in The American Weekly during 1958 and 1959. Lee's second true crime book published under the Queen name and based on material collected by various researchers. The first was Ellery Queen's International Case Book (1964).