Queens Of Crime American And British Female Detective Novels Over The Course Of Time

Author : Silke Friedrich
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
ISBN 13 : 3954890275
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queens of Crime: American and British Female Detective Novels Over the Course of Time written by Silke Friedrich and published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag). This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female crime writers were not always given the same recognition as today. Edgar Allan Poe's detective story 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', written in 1841, is regarded as the beginning of the detective genre. In the following years, the genre was typically dominated by male authors. Since then considerable progress has been made, and female authors have created a very individual way of writing detective novels. However, experts still disagree on a clear definition of the female crime novel. The present study hopes to gain further insight into female detective novels coming from the USA and Great Britain. After giving basic information on the history of female detective novels and the ideal crime scheme, the study analyses the characteristics of female detective novels as opposed to male detective novels and the appeal of detective novels for women writers. Although female detective novels are not a separate sub-genre but rather a separate field within the genre of detective novels, women have given the genre new impulses.

Author : Curtis Evans
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490896
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery written by Curtis Evans and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as "Humdrums," condemning their focus on puzzle plots over stylish writing and explorations of character, setting and theme. This volume explores the works of three prominent British "Humdrums"--Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Alfred Walter Stewart--revealing their work to be more complex, as puzzles and as social documents, than Symons allowed. By championing the intrinsic merit of these mystery writers, the study demonstrates that reintegrating the "Humdrums" into mystery genre studies provides a fuller understanding of the Golden Age of detective fiction and its aftermath.

Author : Marie Benedict
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250280761
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queens of Crime written by Marie Benedict and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2025-02-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie returns with a thrilling story of Christie’s legendary rival Dorothy Sayers, the race to solve a murder, and the power of friendship among women. London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment. May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. The murder has all the hallmarks of a locked room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer manage to sneak her body out of a crowded train station without anyone noticing? If, as the police believe, the cause of death is manual strangulation, why is there is an extraordinary amount of blood at the crime scene? What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they’re stronger together. But soon the killer targets Dorothy Sayers herself, threatening to expose a dark secret in her past that she would do anything to keep hidden. Inspired by a true story in Sayers’ own life, New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict brings to life the lengths to which five talented women writers will go to be taken seriously in the male-dominated world of letters as they unpuzzle a mystery torn from the pages of their own novels.

Author : Lisa Maurice
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004346384
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rewriting the Ancient World written by Lisa Maurice and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewriting the Ancient World looks at how and why the ancient world, including not only the Greeks and Romans, but also Jews and Christians, has been rewritten in popular fictions of the modern world. The fascination that ancient society holds for later periods in the Western world is as noticeable in popular fiction as it is in other media, for there is a vast body of work either set in, or interacting with, classical models, themes and societies. These works of popular fiction encompass a very wide range of society, and the examination of the interaction between these books and the world of classics provides a fascinating study of both popular culture and example of classical reception.

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446429334
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Daughter Of Time written by Josephine Tey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES 'As interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays' OBSERVER Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant, recovering from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III, believed to have brutally killed his brother's children - the Princes in the Tower - to make his crown secure. But is the hunchback with such a sensitive, noble face really one of the world's most heinous villains? Or was he the victim of one of the most insidious plots in history? 'One of the best mysteries of all time' NEW YORK TIMES 'Suspense is achieved by unexpected twists and extremely competent storytelling . . . credible and convincing' SPECTATOR

Author : Tey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780848833640
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughter Oftime written by Tey and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. It was the last book Tey published in her lifetime, shortly before her death. In 1990 it was voted number one in The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list compiled by the British Crime Writers' Association. In 1995 it was voted number four in The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time list compiled by the Mystery Writers of America, and in 1990 it was voted the greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association.

Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Victor Gollancz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady Investigates written by Patricia Craig and published by Victor Gollancz. This book was released on 1981 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Austin
Publisher : Resurrected Press
ISBN 13 : 9781943403349
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Women of Mystery: Three Classic Mystery Novels by American Women Authors of the 1930's written by Anne Austin and published by Resurrected Press. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three complete novels in one! One Drop of Blood by Anne Austin Murder Unleashed by Dorothy Bennett The Murder of Cecily Thane by H. Ashbrook While the best known writers of American detective fiction in the 1930's were men such as Dashiell Hammett, Rex Stout, and S. S. Van Dine, there were also many American women writing in the genre during that period. This collection includes mystery novels by three of them. Although there are differences in style and treatment between them, they all are written with a distinctly American voice that sets them apart from their British counterparts. They are edgier and darker than the "cozy mysteries" that were so representative of British mysteries of the time. While not particularly well known today, each of these three authors was a talented writer in her own right, making American Women of Mystery a compelling and fascinating read.

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781973206972
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Daughter of Time written by Josephine Tey and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. It was the last book Tey published in her lifetime, shortly before her death. In 1990 it was voted number one in The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list compiled by the British Crime Writers' Association. In 1995 it was voted number four in The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time list compiled by the Mystery Writers of America.

Author : Sally Rowena Munt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134838433
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder by the Book? written by Sally Rowena Munt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. A pioneering work in the field and an indispensable guide for readers and scholars of the genre.