Sisters in Crime: Early Detective and Mystery Stories by Women

by Anna Katharine Green and Metta Fuller

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 072061516X
• ISBN13: 9780720615166
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"