Investigating Women (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
289
Utgivningsdatum
1996-01-01
Förlag
Simon & Pierre Publishers
Medarbetare
Skene-Melvin, David (ed.)
Illustrationer
2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
Dimensioner
231 x 145 x 19 mm
Vikt
395 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Paperback
ISBN
9780889242692

Investigating Women

Female Detectives by Canadian Writers: An Eclectic Sampler

av David Skene-Melvin
Häftad,  Engelska, 1996-01-01
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Meet some fascinating females: Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world traveller Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World War the 60s Eve Adam, the "Rock Hit of Prague," whose methods violate all the "rules" for detective books and, very much of the 1990s, vampire detective Vicki Nelson, whose beat is Torontos Queen Street West As well as the fifteen investigating women in the book, Skene-Melvins introduction describes hundreds of female sleuths and their creators in an in-depth analysis of women detective fiction by Canadians. You will recognize many of the writers included in Investigating Women: Grant Allen, Robert Barr, Marisa De Franceschi, Adrian Dingle, Katherine V. Forrest, Hulbert Footner, Maurice Gagnon, Margaret Haffner, Joan Hall Hovey, Tanya Huff, Medora Sale, Josef Skvorecky, and Betsy Struthers. For each of the selections a brief note sets the story; bibliographies help readers find other books by the authors featured in Investigating Women.
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Dr. David Skene-Melvin is the dean of anthologizers of Canadian criminous short fiction and has previously edited Crime in a Cold Climate, Investigating Women, and Bloody York. He is also the compiler of Canadian Crime Fiction 1817-1996.

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