From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell
Subtitle: British women writers in detective and crime fiction
By: Susan Rowland.
Series: Crime files series
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Rendell, Ruth, 1930- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Description: "From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell considers seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Nag Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of 42 key novels, this volume introduces these authors for students and the general reader in the context of their lives, and of critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D.

James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-216) and index.