San Francisco, 1846-1856 From Hamlet to City

Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.Klein, Kathleen G. is the author of 'San Francisco, 1846-1856 From Hamlet to City', published 1997 under ISBN 9780252066313 and ISBN 0252066316.