Women Writers and Detectives in NineteenthCentury Crime Fiction
            
                Crime File Series
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780230272293
Description: "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"--