L. Sussex's Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime PDF

By L. Sussex

This book is a examine of the 'mothers' of the secret style. often the discovery of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, yet they'd bold ladies opponents, whose paintings has been until eventually lately mostly forgotten. the aim of this e-book is to 'cherchez les femmes', in a undertaking of rediscovery.

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