Murdering Miss Marple : essays on gender and sexuality in the new golden age of womens crime fiction The 10 essays in this collection explore issues of gender and sexuality by women from 1985 to 2011 surveying works about girl sleuths parodies hard boiled detective fiction police procedurals and recent serial killer series. This volume demonstrates how popular women writers of the last three decades have reconceptualized what it means to be a female detective Provided by publisher