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Chapter 9 - The Rise of the American Woman Detective

Gender and the Detective Genre in Green, Doyle, and Rinehart

from Part III - Realist Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2017

By
Ellen Burton Harrington
Edited by
Chris Raczkowski
Chris Raczkowski
Affiliation:
University of South Alabama
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A History of American Crime Fiction , pp. 123 - 135
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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