Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime NovelistsIn this remarkable book, Martha Hailey DuBose has given those multitudes of readers who love the mystery novel an indispensable addition to their libraries. Unlike other works on the subject, Women of Mystery is not merely a directory of the novelists and their publications with a few biographical details. DuBose combines extensive research into the lives of significant women mystery writers from Anna Katherine Green and Mary Roberts Rinehart with critical essays on their work, anecdotes, contemporary reviews and opinions and some of the women's own comments. She takes us through the Golden Age of the British women mystery writers, Christie, Sayers, Marsh, Allingham and Tey, to the leading crime novelists of today, focused on the women who have become legends of the genre. And though she laments, "so many mysteries, so little time," she makes a good effort a mentioning "some of the best of the rest." |
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... husband's five offspring. Her writings, which reflected the influence of the French Realists, won the admiration of contemporaries including Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Henry James, and she enjoyed a long and successful ...
... husband. Emmuska transformed the play into an equally popular series of Pimpernel books, but the adventurous Sir Percy Blakeney—“the demn'd elusive” Pimpernel—was not her only memorable character. Inspired by the stories of Arthur Conan ...
... husband [is] stricken with blindness ... .” Financial necessity again, and love for her man, made Dorcus Dene's sleuthing acceptable. Then there was the chance encounter. Anna Katharine Green's Miss Butterworth just happens to be at the ...
... husband, who languishes in prison until the end of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's 1910 book, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. The baroness was not stymied by the fact that the real Yard had no women officers; she simply invented a Female ...
... husband attired to spit-and-polish perfection. She was also an excellent cook and immaculate housekeeper. The Arch ... husband's objections, on the installment plan. For little Mary and Olive, the neighborhood in which they were born and ...
Contents
THE GENTEEL PUZZLERS | |
SAYERS THE PASSIONATE MIND | |
NGAIO MARSH THE SECRET SELF | |
JOSEPHINE TEY A SINGULAR SOUL | |
MARGERY ALLINGHAM ODD WOMAN | |
RUTH RENDELL TRIPLE THREATENING | |
MARY HIGGINS CLARK DAMSELS IN DISTRESS | |
SUE GRAFTON AN ORNERY ORIGINAL | |
PATRICIA CORNWELL DANGEROUS DISSECTION | |
EMMA LATHEN FATAL GREED | |
LILIANJACKSON BRAUN PURRFECTLY PLEASANT | |
TIME | |
REFERENCES AND RESOURCES | |
MYSTERIES OF THE MURDEROUS MIND | |
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH MURDER WITH A TWIST | |
JAMESAN ARTFUL KIND OF ORDER | |
INDEX | |
Notes | |