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Women of mystery : the lives and works of notable women crime novelists
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- ISBN: 0312209428
- ISBN: 9780312209421
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xi, 467 p. : ill ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000.
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | "Thomas Dunne books." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-454) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword: guilty pleasures -- Part one - In the beginning: the mothers of detection -- Anna Katharine Green: the lady and the inspector -- Mary Roberts Rinehart: the buried story -- Part two - a golden era: the genteel puzzlers -- Agatha Christie: the queen of crime -- Dorothy L. Sayers: the passionate mind -- Ngaio Marsh: the secret self -- Josephine Tey: a singular soul -- Margery Allingham: odd woman out -- Part three - modern motives: mysteries of the murderous mind -- Patricia Highsmith: murder with a twist (M.C. Thomas) -- P.D. James: an artful kind of order -- Ruth Rendell: triple threatening -- Mary Higgins Clark: damsels in distress -- Sue Grafton: an "ornery" original (M.C. Thomas) -- Patricia Cornwell: dangerous dissection (M.C. Thomas) -- Minette Walters: dark shadows -- Emma Lathen: fatal greed -- Margaret Millar: lest we forget -- Lilian Jackson Braun: purr-fectly pleasant (M.C. Thomas) -- Anne Perry: past imperfect (M.C. Thomas) -- Some of the best of the rest: so many mysteries, so little time. |
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