Detecting Women 2: Reader's Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women
Language: English
Published by Purple Moon Pr, 1996
- First Edition
- Softcover
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- Title
- Detecting Women 2: Reader's Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women
- Author
- Heising, Willetta L.
- Publisher
- Purple Moon Pr
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Fine/New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket As Published
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0964459310
- ISBN 13
- 9780964459311
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
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Reviews
The major portion of this oversize volume is a master list arranged alphabetically by author name, including a short biography and bibliography in narrative form for each writer. The primary detective in each series is briefly identified. Dorothy Gilman's Emily Polifax is described as a "New Jersey grandmother and CIA agent," for example. Titles in each series are listed by publication date, and awards won are noted where appropriate. Their place in the series is indicated by a numeral found next to boxes that are meant to be used as a checklist.
The rest of the book arranges the information from the master list in different categories. Readers can search by mystery type (police procedural, amateurs, or private investigators), character, setting, title, or author pseudonym. The volume also includes a chronology of mysteries by decade. It is interesting to see the increase in female mystery writers over the years. Heising also lists 25 short story anthologies, awards and organizations, other resources such as reference books and periodicals, concluding the text with a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.
Detecting Women 2 Pocket Guide ($14.95, 0-9644593-2-9) is a list of authors, characters, and titles intended as a handy reference source for trips to the bookstore or library. Since both volumes are organized as checklists, they are most useful for home use. Public libraries with ample mystery circulation might find the larger volume useful for collection development or patron browsing. The second edition of By a Woman's Hand: A Guide to Mystery Fiction by Women (Berkley, Sept_. 1996, paper, $12, 0-425-15472-6) covers more than 300 writers but does not include complete lists of their works. The first edition of this book was reviewed here [RBB Je 1 & 15 94].
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