TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sussex,Lucy
TI  - Women writers and detectives in nineteenth-century crime fiction: the mothers of the mystery genre 
T2  - Crime files series
SN  - 9781349323111
AV  - PR868.D4 S87 2010
U1  - 823/.087209928709034 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  -  , New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Women authors
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 19th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index
N2  - "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"--Provided by publisher
ER  -