Title: Women Writers and Detectives in NineteenthCentury Crime Fiction
            
                Crime File Series
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"--
Subjects: Women authors, American Detective and mystery stories, English Detective and mystery stories, English fiction, American fiction, History and criticism, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, English fiction, women authors, American fiction, women authors, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Frauenliteratur, Kriminalliteratur, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, English, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literature