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Description:The companion volume to "The Darker Sex" and "The Dreaming Sex," this absorbingaanthology of early women's crime fiction belongs on the bookshelf of any serious crime fanMany of the leading writers of crime fiction are womenOCoAgatha Christie, Ruth Rendell et alOCobut it still comes as a surprise to many that the first full-length detective novel was by one Metta Fuller whose "The" "Dead Letter," under the alias Seeley Regester, appeared as far back as 1866, predating Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone" by two years. In fact, women writers were instrumental in developing the new genre of detective fiction. This anthology selects stories from the late Victorian and Edwardian era including one of the Violet Strange stories by Anna Katharine Green, known as the mother of the detective novel; one of the Loveday Brooke stories by Catherine Pirkis, featuring an early private woman detective; and a story by the Australian writer Mary Fortune, who had writtenamore thana500 detective novels by the time Edward VII came to the throne."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sisters in Crime: Early Crime and Mystery Stories by Women. To get started finding Sisters in Crime: Early Crime and Mystery Stories by Women, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The companion volume to "The Darker Sex" and "The Dreaming Sex," this absorbingaanthology of early women's crime fiction belongs on the bookshelf of any serious crime fanMany of the leading writers of crime fiction are womenOCoAgatha Christie, Ruth Rendell et alOCobut it still comes as a surprise to many that the first full-length detective novel was by one Metta Fuller whose "The" "Dead Letter," under the alias Seeley Regester, appeared as far back as 1866, predating Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone" by two years. In fact, women writers were instrumental in developing the new genre of detective fiction. This anthology selects stories from the late Victorian and Edwardian era including one of the Violet Strange stories by Anna Katharine Green, known as the mother of the detective novel; one of the Loveday Brooke stories by Catherine Pirkis, featuring an early private woman detective; and a story by the Australian writer Mary Fortune, who had writtenamore thana500 detective novels by the time Edward VII came to the throne."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sisters in Crime: Early Crime and Mystery Stories by Women. To get started finding Sisters in Crime: Early Crime and Mystery Stories by Women, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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