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Ten
Women of Mystery
Edited by Earl F. Bargainnier
Popular Culture
Ten Women of Mystery covers the writings of five Americans, four British and one New Zealander, in detective fiction, a genre read equally, heavily, and regularly by both men and women.
This volume which examines the special contributions of a number of women mystery writers sheds light on this significant example of common interests in recreational reading among women and men and the reasons behind the early and continuing uncharacteristic near-equality of both sexes in this field of endeavor.
All the writers examined here exhibit great skill of characterization, adroitness in creating various kinds of tension, and preference for complexity of plot and character relationships over wild action; at the same time, however, as a group they demonstrate a range and variety suggesting the scope of women writers of mystery fiction. This is a book to place beside the contemporary classic studies in detective fiction.
Earl F. Bargainnier was Fuller E. Callaway Professor of English Language
and Literature at Wesleyan College. A former president of the
Popular Culture Association, he was the author of more than sixty
articles and The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction
of Agatha Christie. He also edited Twelve Englishmen of
Mystery and co-edited Cops and Constables. Professor
Bargainnier died January 3, 1987.
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LC: 80-085393 PS
310 pp. 6 x 9
6 b/w photos, 2 b/w figs.
ISBN 978-0-87972-172-5
Cloth $22.95 t
ISBN 978-0-87972-173-2
Paper $11.95 t
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