Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre by Lucy Sussex

Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre

Lucy Sussex

224 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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This book\xa0is 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 ...

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