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Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre
by: L. Sussex (Author)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 2010th
Publication Date: 2010-07-16
Language: English
Print Length: 228 pages
ISBN-10: 0230272290
ISBN-13: 9780230272293
Book Description
This book is a study of the ‘mothers’ of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to ‘cherchez les femmes’, in a project of rediscovery.
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This book is a study of the ‘mothers’ of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to ‘cherchez les femmes’, in a project of rediscovery.
