British Women Mystery Writers: Authors Of Detective Fiction With Female Sleuths; Author: Hadley, Mary; Paperback

Author: Hadley, Mary
Paperback; Photographs, Appendix, Bibliography, Index
192 pages
Published: May 2002
McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 0786412429

Many aspects of British detective fiction are intriguingly different from the American detective fiction. And, confusingly, many of the British women detectives who have made it to Americantelevision are far from typical of the latest women detectives. This work is a study of British detective fiction with female protagonists written by women. Authors included are P.D. James, Jennie Melville, Liza Cody, Val McDermid, Joan Smith, and Susan Moody. Special attention is paid to the evolution of the British female sleuth from the 1960s to the year 2000, particularly the 1980s, and how this shaped and altered detective fiction. Also discussed is the effect of the British judicial system and gun laws on detective fiction and real life, the types of crimes women detectives usually invesThis work is a study of British detective fiction with female protagonists written by women. Special attention is paid to the evolution of the British female sleuth from the 1960s to the year 2000, particularly the 1980s, and how this shaped and altered detective fiction.