| ISBN |
9781681776309 (hardback) |
| Classification |
F INTH |
| Title |
In the shadow of Agatha Christie : classic crime fiction by forgotten female writers: 1850-1917 / edited by Leslie S. Klinger. |
| Variant Title |
Classic crime fiction by forgotten female writers: 1850-1917. |
| Edition |
First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
| Production & Copyright Details |
New York : Pegasus Crime, 2018. |
| ©2018. |
| Physical Description |
xx, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Content type |
text |
| still image |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) |
| Summary Note |
Agatha Christie is undoubtedly the world's best-selling mystery author, hailed as the Queen of Crime, with worldwide sales in the billions. Christie burst onto the literary scene in 1920, with The Mysterious Affair at Styles; her last novel was published in 1976, a career longer than even Conan Doyles forty-year span. The truth is that it was due to the success of writers like Anna Katherine Green in America; L. T. Meade, C. L. Pirkis, the Baroness Orczy, and Elizabeth Corbett in England; and Mary Fortune in Australia that the doors were finally opened for women crime-writers. Authors who followed them, such as Patricia Wentworth, Dorothy Sayers, and, of course, Agatha Christie would not have thrived without the bold, fearless work of their predecessors and the genre would be much poorer for their absence. So while Agatha Christie may still reign supreme, it is important to remember that she did not ascend that throne except on the shoulders of the women who came before her and inspired her and who are now removed from her shadow once and for all by this superb new anthology by Leslie S. Klinger. |
| Subject - Topical Term |
Detective and mystery stories, Australian |
| Detective and mystery stories, American |
| English fiction -- Women authors |
| American fiction -- Women authors |
| Australian fiction -- Women authors |
| Detective and mystery stories, English |
| Women detectives in literature |
| Women in literature |
| Detective and mystery stories -- Women authors |
| Subject - Genre |
Short stories |
| Detective and mystery fiction |
| Added Entry - Personal Name |
Klinger, Leslie S. editor. |
| Crowe, Catherine, 1790-1876 Advocate's wedding day. |
| Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 Squire's story. |
| Fortune, Mary, 1833?- Traces of crime. |
| Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 Mr. Furbush. |
| Wood, Henry Mrs., 1814-1887 Mrs. Todhetley's earrings. |
| Corbett, George Mrs., 1846-1930 Catching a burglar. |
| Pirkis, Catherine Louisa, 1839-1910 Ghost of fountain lane. |
| Bonner, Geraldine, 1870-1930 Statement of Jared Johnson. |
| Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945 Point in morals. |
| Meade, L. T., 1844-1914 Blood-red cross. |
