When we think of the genesis of
female mystery writers, Christie is at the top of the list followed closely by
Dorothy L. Sayers. Most readers would be hard pressed to name another woman who
wrote as prolifically; yet there are hundreds.
In this entertaining anthology Leslie Klinger
has brought together almost two dozen of these ‘forgotten females’ including
Catherine Crow, Mary Fortune, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Elizabeth Corbett and
Carolyn Wells. Their stories range from the saga of the missing earring, ghostly
goings on in Brighton, the testimony of an innocent man and some female detectives
who wouldn’t look out of place in a Christie novel. A thoroughly enjoyable
collection. It could be high time for these novelists’ work to be rediscovered.
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