The lady investigates : women detectives and spies in fiction / by Patricia Craig and Mary Cadogan.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Craig, Patricia
Other Authors: Cadogan, Mary
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, [1981]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.Parma violets and panache.
  • 2.The Villan of the villa.
  • 3.The Lady is a vamp.
  • 4.Spouses, secretaries and sparring partners.
  • 5.Six wonderful old women.
  • 6.From sylvia silence to the silent three.
  • 7.Career girls against crime.
  • 8.A Sweet girl sleuth.
  • 9.Grandmotherly diaguise.
  • 10.Home sleuths.
  • 11.Guns in their garters.
  • 12.A Curious career for a woman?
  • Margery Allingham; Nicholas Blake; Agatha Christie; Amanda Cross; Mignon Eberhart; Antonia Fraser; Anna Katharine Green; P. D. James; Carolyn Keene; Ngaio Marsh; Jennie Melville; Gladys Mitchell; Baroness Orczy; Dorothy Sayers; Patricia Wentworth.