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    Deadlier Than The Male: An Investigation into Feminine Crime Writing
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    Deadlier Than The Male: An Investigation into Feminine Crime Writing

    By Jessica Mann

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    Why are English women so good at murder? Among the books which have survived for more than half a century, always in print and always in demand, are the murder mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and other women writers. Yet their male competitors are mostly forgotten. What is it about these womens' work that has kept it alive? And what was it about the authors that gave them such violent or cunning imaginations, always hidden behind the most respectable of facades? In this book, first published in 1981, Jessica Mann brings the perception of a fellow crime writer to her investigation of her predecessors’ lives and work. She discusses the changes in the mystery form over the years, and its enduring worldwide popularity, in a book that was described by one critic as “obligatory reading for any reader of crime fiction”, and of which another wrote "I cannot recall a better work of criticism devoted to the crime story."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookPartnership.com
    Release dateJan 12, 2015
    ISBN9781783016273
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    Deadlier Than The Male: An Investigation into Feminine Crime Writing
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    Jessica Mann

    Jessica Mann is a writer of crime and suspense novels. Her first book, A Charitable End, came out in 1973. Since then she has published twenty-one crime novels, two non-fiction books, thousands of articles and book reviews, and a book about Godrevy Lighthouse written with her husband, the archaeologist Charles Thomas.

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