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(2010) Women writers and detectives in nineteenth-century crime fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The beginning of what is variously termed crime/mystery/detective fiction is popularly regarded as monogenetic, the achievement of a single writer. As if depicted in a neoclassical portrait, the genre emerges in 1841, fully formed like the goddess Athena, from out of the febrile imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" was followed by "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (1842) and "The Purloined Letter" (1844), all starring the investigative figure of Chevalier Dupin.
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Sussex, L. (2010). "Origins are multifarious and unclean!": the beginnings of crime fiction, in Women writers and detectives in nineteenth-century crime fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 6-25.
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