{"product_id":"9781783016273","title":"Deadlier Than The Male: An Investigation into Feminine Crime Writing","description":"Why are English women so  good at murder? Among the books which have survived for more than half a century, always in print and always  in demand,  are  the murder mysteries by  Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and other women writers. Yet  their male competitors are mostly forgotten. What  is it about these womens' work that has kept it alive? And what was it about the authors that gave them such violent or cunning imaginations, always hidden behind the most respectable of facades? In this book, first published in 1981, Jessica Mann  brings the perception of a fellow crime writer to her investigation of her predecessors' lives and work.  She discusses the changes in the mystery form over the years, and its  enduring worldwide popularity, in a book that was described by one critic  as 'obligatory reading  for any reader of crime fiction', and of which another wrote 'I cannot recall a better work of criticism devoted to the crime story.'","brand":"ebookpartnership.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131277197552,"sku":"9781783016273","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781783016273_p0.jpg?v=1763721151","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781783016273","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}