In the shadow of Agatha Christie :  classic crime fiction by forgotten female writers : 1850-1917 / 
edited by Leslie S. Klinger. 
 - First Pegasus books cloth edition. 
 - xx, 328 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) 
<br/><br/> The advocate's wedding day /  The squire's story /  Traces of crime /  Mr. Furbush /  Mrs. Todhetley's earrings /  Catching a burglar /  The ghost of Fountain Lane /C.L. Pirkis --  The statement of Jared Johnson /  Point in Morals /  The blood-red cross /  The Regent's Park murder /  The case of the registered letter /  The winning sequence /  Missing: page thirteen /  The adventure of the clothes-line /  Jury of her peers /  Catherine Crowe --  Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell --  Mary Fortune --  Harriet Prescott Spofford --  Ellen Wood --  Elizabeth Corbett --  Geraldine Bonner --  Ellen Glasgow --  L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace --  Baroness Orczy --  Augusta Groner --  M.E. Braddon --  Anna Katharine Green --  Carolyn Wells --  Susan Glaspell. 
<br/><br/> This new anthology brings the female crime writers who inspired Agatha Christie out of her shadow and back into the spotlight they deserve. 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 opened doors for the women authors who followed them. While Agatha Christie may still reign supreme, the genre would be much poorer without the bold, fearless work of her predecessors. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781681776309 1681776308 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories--Women authors.<br/>Women detectives in literature.<br/>Women in literature.<br/>Detective and mystery stories, English.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Detective and mystery fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR1309.C7  / I58 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823/.087208