From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction
By S. Rowland
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By S. Rowland
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From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider 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 forty-two key novels, this volume introduces these authors for students and the general reader in the context of their lives, and of critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D. …
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LiteraturePrint BooksNonfictionLiterary CriticismGenres & Literary FormsGeneral & Miscellaneous Literary CriticismEnglish LiteratureMystery & Suspense Fiction - Literary CriticismWomen Authors - British - Literary CriticismEnglish Fiction & Prose Literature - 20th Century - Literary CriticismEnglish Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary CriticismAllingham, Margery (1904-1966)->Criticism and interpretationJames, P. D. (1920-2014)->Criticism and interpretationMarsh, Ngaio (1895-1982)Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh) (1893-1957)->Criticism and interpretationChristie, Agatha (1890-1976)->Criticism and interpretationRendell, Ruth (1930-)->Criticism and interpretationDetective and mystery stories, English->History and criticism



