Far from being a good ol’ boy’s club, the world of crime fiction owes a large part of its success to the women authors who ...

Male members of that real-life club (for which both Sayers and Christie would eventually serve as presidents) refuse to admit female mystery writers, including their pals Margery Allingham ...

One of the first Black female authors in the crime and mystery genre, Eleanor Taylor Bland was a groundbreaking writer. Her series featuring the detective Marti MacAlister, starting with “Dead ...

First we read Nancy Drew, girl detective. Then what? Women of Mystery explores the writing lives of three authors (Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton & Marcia Muller) who started a literary revolution and ...

Marie Benedict does. In “The Queens of Crime,” Benedict imagines that five of the female greats of the era, fighting a snobbish fraternity of male authors, band together to prove their skill by ...