The Detective And The Woman

Author : Kathleen Gregory Klein
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252064631

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The Woman Detective by Kathleen Gregory Klein Pdf

Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.

Author : Brad Ricca
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466883659

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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca Pdf

Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime! This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, detective, and first woman U.S. District Attorney who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation's greatest crime-fighters during an era when women were still not allowed to vote. After agreeing to take the sensational case of missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger, Grace and her partner, the hard-boiled detective Julius J. Kron, navigated a dangerous web of secret boyfriends, two-faced cops, underground tunnels, rumors of white slavery, and a mysterious pale man, in a desperate race against time. Brad Ricca's Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is the first-ever narrative biography of this singular woman the press nicknamed after fiction's greatest detective. Her poignant story reveals important clues about missing girls, the media, and the real truth of crime stories. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is a nominee for the 2018 Edgar Awards for Best Fact Crime.

Author : Andrew Forrester (Jun.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000657485

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The Female Detective by Andrew Forrester (Jun.) Pdf

Author : Amy Thomas
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780921440

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The Detective and the Woman by Amy Thomas Pdf

Irene Adler, American opera singer and the one woman who outsmarted Sherlock Holmes, finds herself a widow at thirty-two, wealthy but emotionally broken. At the same time, Sherlock Holmes finds himself unable to return to England after faking his death at Reichenbach Falls and is drawn into an investigation of two men with designs on a woman they call Miss A, who is none other than Irene Adler herself. The Detective and The Woman throw their lot in together to uncover a dangerous plot with implications that stretch across the Atlantic. In the process, they meet legendary inventor Thomas Edison and experience life in Florida at the turn of the 20th century.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 2582 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525434757

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The Big Book of Female Detectives by Otto Penzler Pdf

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting P.I.s like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, and many more.

Author : Philippa Gates
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438434063

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Detecting Women by Philippa Gates Pdf

Finalist for the 2012 Edgar Award in the Best Critical/Biographical Category presented by the Mystery Writers of America In this extensive and authoritative study of over 300 films, Philippa Gates explores the "woman detective" figure from her pre-cinematic origins in nineteenth century detective fiction through her many incarnations throughout the history of Hollywood cinema. Through the lens of theories of gender, genre, and stardom and engaging with the critical concepts of performativity, masquerade, and feminism, Detecting Women analyzes constructions of the female investigator in the detective genre and focuses on the evolution of her representation from 1929 to today. While a popular assumption is that images of women have become increasingly positive over this period, Gates argues that the most progressive and feminist models of the female detective exist in mainstream film's more peripheral products such as 1930's B-picture and 1970's Blaxploitation films. Offering revisions and new insights into peripheral forms of mainstream film, Gates explores this space that allows a fantasy of resolution of social anxieties about crime and, more interestingly, gender, in the 20th and early 21st centuries. The author's innovative, engaging, and capacious approach to this important figure within feminist film history breaks new ground in the field of gender and film studies.

Author : Illune Press,William Stephens Hayward
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798392774623

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Revelations of a Lady Detective by Illune Press,William Stephens Hayward Pdf

Written in 1864, this novel set in London depicts Victorian women under a new light thanks to "the initiative in works of progress" of the times, that challenged what was considered not to be "a woman's work". In this novel the English police started employing women in their task force as undercover detectives. Here in the Victorian London we meet Mrs. Paschal, a widow in financial trouble, who "verging upon forty" reinvented herself and "became one of the much-dreaded, but little-known people called Female Detectives". Under cover she bravely chases thieves to secret vaults full of gold, spies on an Italian secret society, solves crimes and rescues the day.

Author : Marissa Moss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781939547330

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Kate Warne, Pinkerton Detective by Marissa Moss Pdf

A biography of Kate Warne, the first woman detective in the U.S after being hired by the Pinkerton Agency in 1856.

Author : Angela Misri
Publisher : Cormorant Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770865815

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The Detective and the Spy by Angela Misri Pdf

It’s taken years, but Portia Adams has found an outlet for her obsessive curiosity as the consulting detective of 221 Baker Street, like her grandfathers before her. Scotland Yard taps her for their trickiest crimes, she’s in her last year of law school and finally things are heating up between Portia and her downstairs tenant, Constable Brian Dawes. But a bomb planted at a crime scene destroys everything she has fought so hard to establish. ​She wakes up to a world she can’t communicate with, the sounds around her dulled and unintelligible and the words that come out of her mouth are garbled and incomprehensible. Brian was hurt in other ways, the burns on his hands and arms causing pain that makes him turn to the opium dens Sherlock Holmes was also known to frequent. ​The bomber continues to wreak havoc all over London but no one will work with Portia - everyone from her allies at the Yard to the public itself dismisses the young detective as damaged goods. To make matters worse, a rabid spymaster at MI6 believes she’s involved in the bombings and Portia finds herself on the run having to relearn her skills in a deafeningly silent world.

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493030668

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The Pinks by Chris Enss Pdf

The true story of Kate Warne and the other women who served as Pinkertons, fulfilling the adage, “Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History.” Most students of the Old West and American law enforcement history know the story of the notorious and ruthless Pinkerton Detective Agency and the legends behind their role in establishing the Secret Service and tangling with Old West Outlaws. But the true story of Kate Warne, an operative of the Pinkerton Agency and the first woman detective in America—and the stories of the other women who served their country as part of the storied crew of crime fighters—are not well known. For the first time, the stories of these intrepid women are collected here and richly illustrated throughout with numerous historical photographs. From Kate Warne’s probable affair with Allan Pinkerton, and her part in saving the life of Abraham Lincoln in 1861 to the lives and careers of the other women who broke out of the Cult of True Womanhood in pursuit of justice, these true stories add another dimension to our understanding of American history.

Author : Linda Mizejewski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781135880057

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Hardboiled and High Heeled by Linda Mizejewski Pdf

Can a gumshoe wear high heels? In a genre long dominated by men, women are now taking their place-as authors and as characters-alongside hard-boiled legends like Sam Spade and Mike Hammer. Hardboiled and High Heeled examines the meteoric rise of the female detective in contemporary film, television, and literature. Richly illustrated and written with a fan's love of the genre, Hardboiled and High Heeled is an essential introduction to women in detective fiction, from past to present, from pulp fiction to blockbuster films.

Author : Kathy Burke,Neal Hirschfeld
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743283922

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Detective by Kathy Burke,Neal Hirschfeld Pdf

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Author : Mary Guinan
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421439815

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Adventures of a Female Medical Detective by Mary Guinan Pdf

Occasionally heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious, Guinan's account of her pathbreaking career will inspire public health students and future medical detectives—and give all readers insight into that part of the government exclusively devoted to protecting their health.

Author : Greer Macallister
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781492635239

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Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister Pdf

From the USA Today Bestselling author of The Magician's Lie "A Spunky Spy Saga." — NPR Books "Macallister is becoming a leading voice in strong, female-driven historical fiction. Exciting, frightening, and unspeakably moving..."—Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingways's Girl For the first female Pinkerton detective, respect is hard to come by. Danger, however, is not. In the tumultuous years of the Civil War, the streets of Chicago offer a woman mostly danger and ruin—unless that woman is Kate Warne, the first female Pinkerton detective and a desperate widow with a knack for manipulation. Descending into undercover operations, Kate is able to infiltrate the seedy side of the city in ways her fellow detectives can't. She's a seductress, an exotic foreign medium, a rich train passenger—all depending on the day and the robber, thief, or murderer she's been assigned to nab. But is the woman she's becoming—capable of lies, swapping identities like dresses—the true Kate? Or has the real disguise been the good girl she always thought she was? As the tensions between the north and south escalate, Kate takes on a job in which the stakes have never been higher. The nation's future is at risk, even as the lines between disguise and reality begin to blur.

Author : Sar?, Gül?ah,Çetin, Derya
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799817765

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International Perspectives on Feminism and Sexism in the Film Industry by Sar?, Gül?ah,Çetin, Derya Pdf

Gender studies has maintained its status as a heavily researched field. However, women and their role in cinema is a vastly understudied topic that deals with various aspects of feminism and sexism. The function of women in the film industry has evolved over time and proven to be an interesting area of research regarding the transition from sexual icons to respected professionals. Feminism is a widely researched subject, yet its specific application within cinema is an area that has yet to be studied. International Perspectives on Feminism and Sexism in the Film Industry is an essential reference source that examines the representation of women in cinema and provides a feminist approach to various aspects of the film industry including labor, production, and the cultural impact of women in motion pictures. Featuring research on topics such as violence against women, feminist film theory, and psychoanalysis, this book is ideally designed for directors, industry professionals, writers, screenwriters, activists, professors, students, administrators, and researchers in fields that include film studies, gender studies, mass media, and communications.