Sisters in Crime
Early Crime and Mystery Stories by Women
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 15. November 2013
253 Seiten
978-0-7206-1517-3 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Many of the leading writers of crime fiction are women - Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell et al - but it still comes as a surprise to many that the first full-length detective novel was by one Metta Fuller whose The Dead Letter, under the alias Seeley Regester, appeared as far back as 1866, predating Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone by two years. In fact. women writers were instrumental in developing the new genre of detective fiction. This anthology selects stories from the late Victorian and Edwardian era including one of the Violet Strange stories by Anna Katharine Green, known as the "mother of the detective novel’; one of the Loveday Brooke stories by Catherine Pirkis, featuring an early private woman detective and a story by the Australian writer Mary Fortune who had written over 500 detective novels by the time Edward VII came to the throne. . . An absorbing collection belonging on the bookshelf of any serious crime fan.
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Inhalt
- Front Cover
- Praise
- About this book
- Title Page
- Source and Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Mary E. Braddon - Levison's Victim
- Ellen Wood - Going Through the Tunnel
- Harriet E. Prescott - Mr Furbush
- Mary Fortune - Traces of Crime
- Anna Katharine Green - The House of Clocks
- Elizabeth Corbett - The Polish Refugee
- Mary E. Wilkins - The Long Arm
- C.L. Pirkis - The Redhill Sisterhood
- Arabella Kenealy - The Villa of Simpkins
- L.T. Meade - The Warder of the Door
- Lucy G. Moberly - The Tragedy of a Doll
- Carolyn Wells - A Point of Testimony
- Author Note
- Copyright
- Some Authors We Have Published
- Contact Peter Owen
- Also Published by Peter Owen
- Back Cover
