Agatha Christie is undoubtedly the world's best-selling mystery
author, hailed as the "Queen of Crime," with worldwide sales in the
billions. Christie burst onto the literary scene in 1920, with The
Mysterious Affair at Styles; her last novel was published in 1976,
a career longer than even Conan Doyle's forty-year span. The truth
is that it was due to 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
that the doors were finally opened for women crime-writers. Authors
who followed them, such as Patricia Wentworth, Dorothy Sayers, and,
of course, Agatha Christie would not have thrived without the bold,
fearless work of their predecessors-and the genre would be much
poorer for their absence. So while Agatha Christie may still reign
supreme, it is important to remember that she did not ascend that
throne except on the shoulders of the women who came before her-and
inspired her-and who are now removed from her shadow once and for
all by this superb new anthology by Leslie S. Klinger. Featuring:
Mary Fortune, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Ellen Wood, Elizabeth
Corbett, C. L. Pirkis, Geraldine Bonner, Ellen Glasgow, L. T.
Meade, Baroness Orczy, Augusta Grosser, M. E. Graddon, Anna
Katherine Green, Carolyn Wells, Susan Glaspell
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