Murdering Miss Marple
Subtitle: essays on gender and sexuality in the new golden age of women's crime fiction
By: edited by Julie H. Kim
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780786463312
Subjects: English Detective and mystery stories; Gender identity in literature; Women and literature; History and criticism
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.