WOMEN DETECTIVES AND CRIMINALS IN THE MYSTERY

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Mystery Readers Corner: The Softer Side of Murder

BIBLIOGRAPHY

And Then There Were Nine . . . More Women of Mystery (Jane S. Bakerman ed., 1985). Includes J. S. Bakerman, Daphne du Maurier, R. W. Gaskill, Margery Allingham, M. Alderson and N. Chouteau, Anne Morice, G. N. Dove, Dorothy Uhnak, P. Moran, Craig Rice, S. Baker, E. X. Ferrars, Kathleen Greogry Klein, Patricia Highsmith, and C. Cleveland, Shirley Jackson.

Blake, A., Deadlier Than the Male: Women as Readers and Writers of Crime Fiction, 8 Law in Context 54 (1990). In a special issue: Feminism, Law and Society.

Blake, Fay M., Lady Sleuths and Women Detectives, 3 Turn of the Century Women 29 (Summer 1986).

Chouteau, Neysa and Martha Alderson, The Little Old Ladies, in Comic Crime 128 (Earl F. Bargainnier ed., 1987).

Coward, Rosalind and Linda Semple, Tracking Down the Past: Women and Detective Fiction, in From My Guy To Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World 39 (Helen Carr ed., 1989).

Craig, Patricia and Mary Cadogan, The Lady Investigates: Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction (1981). Paperback edition 1986 by Oxford University Press.

Cranny-Francis, Anne, Gender and Genre: Feminist Rewritings of Detective Fiction, 11 Womens Studies International Forum 69 (1988).

Deal, Nancy B., The Lady as Criminal: Anthony Trollope's Adaptation of the Victorian Sensation Novel (Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1988).

Della Cava, Frances A. and Madeline H. Engel, Female Detectives in American Novels (1993).

Detective Stories: By a Woman Solved

Drew, Bernard A., Heroines: A Bibliography of Women Series Characters in Mystery, Espionage, Action, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Western, Romance and Juvenile Novels (1989)(Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; 878).

Fenwick, J., How Far Can She Go? Crossing the Gender Boundaries in Feminist Detective Fiction (Master's thesis, The Media Centre, December 1992). Unpublished paper cited in Sue Turnbull, Bodies of Knowledge, 9 Australian Journal of Law and Society 19 (1993) at 29.

Haug, Ariadne Spins the Thread, Or Is There Really a Feminist Crime Literature? 30 Argument 731 (1988). In German.

Heilbrun, Carolyn, Keynote Address: Gender and Detective Fiction, in The Sleuth and the Scholar: Origins, Evolution, and Current Trends in Detective Fiction 1 (Barbara A. Rader, Howard G. Zettler and Robin W. Winks, eds. 1988).

Hellmann, Harald and Ulrich Holzer, Die Morde der Lady ABC, oder: "Mehr Arbeit für den Totengraber": Kriminalroman-Autorinnen, in Frauen--Literatur--Geschichte: Schreibende Frauen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart 367 (Hiltrud Gnug and Renate Mohrmann eds., 1985).

Hess, Joan, Confessions of a Silk-Stocking Sleuth, 9 Clues 21 (Fall/Winter 1988).

Klein, Kathleen Gregory, The Woman Detective: Gender and Genre (1988). Concentrates on Canadian literature.

Lawrence, Barbara, Female Detectives: The Feminist--Anti-Feminist Debate, 3 Clues 38 (Spring/Summer 1982).

Marchino, Lois A., The Female Sleuth in Academe, 23 Journal of Popular Culture 89 (Winter 1990).

Mason, Bobbie Ann, The Girl Sleuth: A Feminist Guide (1975).

McPherson, Karen S., The Police and Guilty Women in Four Twentieth-Century Novels (Dissertation, Yale University, 1987).

Morris, Virginia B., Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction (1990).

Munt, Sally, The Inverstigators: Lesbian Crime Fiction, in Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender, and Popular Fiction 91 (Susannah Radstone ed., 1988).

Munt, Sally Rowena, Murder by the Book? Feminism and the Crime Novel (Dissertation, University of Sussex, 1994).

Nicholas, Victoria, Silk Stalkings: When Women Write of Murder: A Survey of Series Characters Created By Women Authors In Crime and Mystery Fiction (1988).

Pennell, Jane C., The Female Detective: Pre- and Post-Women's Lib, 6 Clues 85 (Fall/Winter 1985).

Pykett, Lyn, Seizing the Crime: Recent Women's Crime Fiction, 2 New Welsh Review 24 (Summer 1989).

Rich, B. Ruby, The Lady Dicks: Genre Benders Take the Case, 75 Village Voice Literary Supplement 24 (June 1989).

Robert, Audrey and John Cornillon, Early Self-Images in Women's Mystery Fiction, Paper delivered at the Popular Culture Association Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, April 1973. Cited at 10 Women of Mystery 178 (Earl F. Bargainnier ed., 1981).

Ronning, Kari Ann, Above All a Nice Girl: The Heroines of Bestsellers 1895-1920 (Dissertation, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1980).

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Stasio, Marilyn, Lady Gumshoes: Boiled Less Hard, New York Times Book Review, April 28, 1985, at 39.

10 Women of Mystery (E. F. Bargainnier ed., 1981). Includes Kathleen Gregory Klein, Dorothy Sayers; N. E. Talburt, Josephine Tey; E. F. Baargainnier, Ngaio Marsh; N. C. Joyner, P. D. James; J. S. Bakerman, Ruth Rendell; B. Hayne, Anna Katharine Green; J. Cohn, Mary Roberts Rinehart; J. M. Reilly, Margaret Millar; J. F. Bedell, Emma Lathen; S. F. Carter, Amanda Cross.

Ward, Kathryn Ann, Clients, Colleagues, and Consorts: Roles of Women in American Hardboiled Detective Fiction and Film (Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1988). Discussion of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald.

Women Lawyers: A Bibliography (From the Monroe Country Public Library)

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