Twelve Women Detective Stories

Name: Twelve Women Detective Stories
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ISBN: 9780192880369

ISBN-10: 0192880365

ISBN-13: 9780192880369

Edition: 1997

Authors: Laura Marcus, Chris Wilis

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Whether a housekeeper, secretary, lodger, or pawn-broker in a seedy area of Victorian London, the woman detective's powers of observation and deduction are also her most effective in uncovering and resolving both crimes and mysteries. Twelve Women Detective Stories is an entertaining anthology that gives us a glimpse at these female sleuths in twelve engaging mysteries. The woman detective is as prominent in stories written by men as in those by women. The detectives here may be young, educated and independent, or elderly and unmarried, illustrating the writers abilities to both use and subvert feminine stereotypes in fascinating ways. Included here are stories by Fergus Hume, Robert…

Book details

List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Introduction
The Mysterious Countess	p. 1
Drawn Daggers	p. 25
The First Customer and the Florentine Dante	p. 46
The Adventure of the Cantankerous Old Lady	p. 63
Mr Bovey's Unexpected Will	p. 81
The Man in the Inverness Cape	p. 96
The Man With Nine Lives	p. 114
An Intangible Clue	p. 147
The Clairvoyants	p. 167
Lot's Wife	p. 182
A Light on Murder	p. 214
On Principle	p. 222
Notes	p. 227
Acknowledgements	p. 230
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