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Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.
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Kathleen Gregory Klein is a professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University.
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"Real mystery fans will enjoy this survey of nearly 300 female sleuths in 100 years of British and U.S. fiction." Feminist Bookstore News "A highly intelligent analysis." Ms. "Well-researched and well-written... Traces the evolution of sexist boundaries in popular detective fiction from a feminist viewpoint and documents the parallels in social history and the women's rights movement." Ronald C. Miller, The Armchair Detective "Identifies dozens of good novels whose titles are not well known, its promise of good reading extending well beyond its own covers." Jane Bakerman, Belles Lettres
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- PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0252064631
- ISBN 13 9780252064630
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages296
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