The Web of Iniquity
Early Detective Fiction by American Women
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Author
Publication
1998 - Duke University Press, Durham, NC, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
68,750 words, Guess
Page Count
275 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL349168M
- ISBN-10082232251X
- OCLC Control Number39235549
- OCLC Control Numberwebofiniquityear0000nick
- Library of Congress Control Number98008397
and 2 more
- Goodreads4091065
- LibraryThing818201
Classifications
- DDC813/.087209
- LCCPS374.D4 N532 1998
Description
This book traces the rise and development of a tradition of detective fiction by women in the period between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War II. Its subject may come as a surprise to those who have long associated American detective fiction with the expression and dissemination of a hard-boiled style of masculinity. In fact, several women were highly successful authors of detective novels in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; their books sold briskly and the authors achieved a certain level of literary celebrity in their day. -- from the Preface
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