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From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British women writers in detective and crime fiction

2001; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 38; Issue: 09 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.38-4919

1943-5975

Susan Rowland,

Crime and Detective Fiction Studies

This work considers, seriously, the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of 42 key novels, it introduces these authors for students and the general reader within the contexts of their lives, and critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. [From the Publisher]