From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell

This work considers, seriously, the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of 42 key novels, it introduces these authors for students and the general reader within the contexts of their lives, and critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.

ISBN	0333674502	Volumes	1
ISBN13	9780333674505 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	471
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan	Published in	Basingstoke
Imprint	Palgrave Macmillan	Series editor	Bloom, Clive, Bloom, Clive, Bloom, Clive
Format	Hardback	Series title	Crime Files
Publication date	19 Dec 2000	Previous ISBN	9780333684634
Library of Congress	00042202	Height (mm)	222
DEWEY	823.0872089287	Width (mm)	141
DEWEY edition	DC21	Spine width (mm)	20
Pages	232	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Lives of Crime
		Gendering the Genre
		Social Negotiations: Class, Crime and Power
		Lands of Hope and Glory?: Englishness, Race and Colonialism
		Detecting Psychoanalysis: Readers, Criminals and Narrative
		Crimes: A Literature of Terror and Horror
		The Spirits of Detection
		Feminism is Criminal

'Traditionally crime fiction ends with identifying the criminal and thus re-establishing the social and moral order. However Susan demonstrates that the six writers are concerned with replotting the process of crime novels in ways which affect the reading process.' - Christopher Dean, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society Newsletter

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