Title: The rise of the detective in early nineteenth-century popular fiction
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."--Jacket.
Subjects: English Detective and mystery stories, History and criticism, Popular literature, English fiction, Detectives in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature, History, Women authors
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century