Women writers and detectives in nineteenth-century crime fiction: the mothers of the mystery genre / Lucy Sussex.

9780230272293 (hardback)
0230272290 (hardback)
9780230289406 (e-book)

Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

English

1 online resource (xii, 216 pages ) : illustrations

PR868.D4 S87 2010

823/.087209928709034

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index.

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Crime files series.

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