The companion volume to The Darker Sex and The Dreaming Sex , this absorbing anthology of early women's crime fiction belongs on the bookshelf of any serious crime fan Many of the leading writers of crime fiction are women--Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell et al--but it still comes as a surprise to many that the first full-length detective novel was by one Metta Fuller whose The Dead Letter , under the alias Seeley Regester, appeared as far back as 1866,...