Overview
Agatha Christie is undoubtedly the worldās best-selling mystery author, hailed as the āQueen of Crime,ā with worldwide sales in the billions. Christie burst onto the literary scene in 1920, withĀ The Mysterious Affair at Styles; her last novel was published in 1976, a career longer than even Conan Doyleās forty-year span.Ā
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 predecessorsāand 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 herāand inspired herāand who are now removed from her shadow once and for all by this superb new anthology by Leslie S. Klinger.
Featuring:Ā Mary Fortune, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Ellen Wood, Elizabeth Corbett, C. L. Pirkis, Geraldine Bonner, Ellen Glasgow, L. T. Meade, Baroness Orczy, Augusta GroĆer, M. E. Graddon, Anna Katherine Green, Carolyn Wells, Susan Glaspell
This book title, In the Shadow of Agatha Christie (Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers: 1850-1917) - 9781643130460, ISBN: 9781643130460, by Leslie S Klinger, published by Pegasus Books (February 12, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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