In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers: 1850-1917 - Hardcover

Klinger, Leslie S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1681776308 ISBN 13: 9781681776309

Verlag: Pegasus Books, 2018

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Críticas:

A most enjoyable and intriguing book.

You owe it to yourself to read this collection. The reader is sure to be amazed, delighted, and entertained from one end of the book to the other.

A winner for fans of classic mysteries and a complete joy.

Stellar. Much more than quaint curiosities, the 16 entries from women crime writers who preceded Christie are enjoyable in their own right. This is a must-have volume for classic crime fans.

Klinger the archivist and editor has done the field an invaluable service by excavating so many stories. Shows Victorian women actively working the field long before Miss Marple.

Illuminating and entertaining.

Unreservedly recommended for community libraries and the personal reading lists of dedicated mystery buffs.

Beautifully published and full of delights.

A welcome addition to anyone's library of crime fiction.

Klinger, as one of the world's foremost early crime fiction experts, has selected a wide array of stories by women crime writers in the Anglophone world, taking us through the birth of the genre in the 19th century up to just before WWI.

Reseña del editor:

Agatha Christie is undoubtedly the world’s best-selling mystery author, hailed as the “Queen of Crime,” with worldwide sales in the billions. Christie burst onto the literary scene in 1920, with The Mysterious Affair at Styles; her last novel was published in 1976, a career longer than even Conan Doyle’s forty-year span.The truth is that it was due to the success of writers like Anna Katherine Green in America; L. T. Meade, C. L. Pirkis, the Baroness Orczy, and Elizabeth Corbett in England; and Mary Fortune in Australia that the doors were finally opened for women crime-writers. Authors who followed them, such as Patricia Wentworth, Dorothy Sayers, and, of course, Agatha Christie would not have thrived without the bold, fearless work of their predecessors—and the genre would be much poorer for their absence. So while Agatha Christie may still reign supreme, it is important to remember that she did not ascend that throne except on the shoulders of the women who came before her—and inspired her—and who are now removed from her shadow once and for all by this superb new anthology by Leslie S. Klinger.Featuring: Mary Fortune, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Ellen Wood, Elizabeth Corbett, C. L. Pirkis, Geraldine Bonner, Ellen Glasgow, L. T. Meade, Baroness Orczy, Augusta Großer, M. E. Graddon, Anna Katherine Green, Carolyn Wells, Susan Glaspell

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• Verlag: Pegasus Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1681776308
• ISBN 13: 9781681776309
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356