During the interwar ""golden age"" of British detective fiction,
women writers like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie reigned
sovereign, but their work remains tame compared to today's crime
novels. Elements of sexuality and gender, including soft porn and
sexual psychopathy, pervade contemporary detective fiction. The 10
essays in this collection explore issues of gender and sexuality in
crime writing by women from 1985 to 2011, surveying works about
girl sleuths, parodies, hard-boiled detective fiction, police
procedurals, and recent serial killer series. They examine the
relationship between genre and gender and explore how later works
enter into a field of ""post-feminism."" Most importantly, this
volume demonstrates how popular women writers of the last three
decades have reconceptualized what it means to be a female
detective.
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