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was published as a companion piece to the earlier "Murder Ink", While "Murder Ink" focused on male and female writers/adventures/books, "The Better Half of the Mystery" focused more on female writers/adventures/books, but many of the writers/books here previously appeared in the original work.
Still, I bought this when it came out inand it still sits on my Reference Shelf at my home library, so I have had it here for almostyears.
And like "Murder Ink" I enjoy visiting my old friends within these pages on occasions, First edition. Book about fine, dj has mild edge wear and is price clipped, A companion book to Murder Ink, which featured mysteries of all sorts, this volume focused exclusively on the feminine side of the genre: victims/sleuths/culprits/authors, I enjoyed the articles which highlight authors such as Dorothy L, Sayers, Margery Allingham, Josephine Tey, and Ruth Rendell among others, And I also appreciated that a great number of the pieces were written by detective novelists themselves, Less enjoyable were some of the pieces that were written as if one were in the midst of one mystery or another or which framed ordinary events such as a luncheon among mystery writers as mysterious or topsecret affairs.
These bits seemed either forced or too coy and sometimes both, Coming to the book decades after it was written probably didn't helpsome of it seems very dated, But there is still a great deal of interesting information and I even managed to glean a few more titles to add to my alwaysgrowing "To Be Found" list.
First posted on my blog sitelinkMy Reader's Block, A second reading after multiple decades, . . well, since it was first published, I'm more critical now, impatient with the perpetuation of plotlines and useless complications, with the whole concept of "red herrings", Interesting historically, maybe. But by the lastpages, even in the light, semiironic tone of the book, our current society has produced so many reallife horrific crimes against women and children, that it just wasn't light and semiironic any more.
Of an era, welldoneish. But This book is about mysteries written by women, especially during the golden age of mystery writing, I loved this book in my teens, must be more thanyears ago now, maybe more, I wish I hadn't gotten rid of my copy, This book started me reading Dorothy Sayers, and other authors, Although oddly what I remember best is the chapter about norland nurses, Norland is a British agency that produces very superior nannies as we Americans would say, Read this a long time ago too Dilys Winn was an Irish author, She was born in Dublin, Ireland but moved to the USA when she was only one year old with her family in, She graduated from the Baldwin School in Philadelphia and Pembroke College, afterward, she landed a job as an advertising copywriter, She founded Mystery Ink. in, Americas first bookstore devoted solely to the mystery genre, she sold the bookstore into free up time to work on a tome of essays and opinions on mystery fiction, which still remains a favorite in the mystery genre today.
in thes Winn moved to West Keys, Florida and opened up her second bookstore, Miss Marples Parlour, and began reviewing mystery stories for Kirkus s, she had hundreds of reviews under her belt before she Dilys Winn was an Irish author.
She was born in Dublin, Ireland but moved to the USA when she was only one year old with her family in, She graduated from the Baldwin School in Philadelphia and Pembroke College, afterward, she landed a job as an advertising copywriter, She founded Mystery Ink. in, America's first bookstore devoted solely to the mystery genre, she sold the bookstore into free up time to work on a tome of essays and opinions on mystery fiction, which still remains a favorite in the mystery genre today.
in thes Winn moved to West Keys, Florida and opened up her second bookstore, Miss Marples Parlour, and began reviewing mystery stories for Kirkus s, she had hundreds of reviews under her belt before she retired in.
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