TY - GEN AB - "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"--Provided by publisher. AU - Sussex, Lucy, CN - PR868.D4 CY - Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; CY - New York : DA - 2010. ID - 1456794 KW - Detective and mystery stories, English KW - Detective and mystery stories, American KW - English fiction KW - American fiction KW - English fiction KW - American fiction LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=652342 N2 - "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"--Provided by publisher. PB - Palgrave Macmillan, PP - Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; PP - New York : PY - 2010. T1 - Women writers and detectives in nineteenth-century crime fiction:the mothers of the mystery genre / TI - Women writers and detectives in nineteenth-century crime fiction:the mothers of the mystery genre / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=652342 ER -