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From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction (Crime Files)
 
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From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction (Crime Files) (Paperback)

by Susan Rowland (Author)
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  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (12 Dec 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 033368463X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333684634
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 601,670 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #66 in  Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Mystery > Reference
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This work considers, seriously, the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of 42 key novels, it introduces these authors for students and the general reader within the contexts of their lives, and critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.

About the Author
SUSAN ROWLAND is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich. She is also author of C.G.Jing and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction (1999). She has published upon the work of Mich?le Roberts, Doris Lessing and Margaret Attwood, among others.

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A fascinating and intriguing study of the six "Queens of Crime" - Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers, James and Rendell. A must for mystery fans!
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