Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract. -Joanne Dobson

 

Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract.


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Women mystery writers took a genre that before that had been exclusively male and transformed it. The tradition of the male private eye goes all the way back in literature to the lone man on the edge of society with a moral conscience, saving people's lives. In 1977 Marcia Muller wrote the first female sleuth who was a hard-core professional crime solver.

Joanne Dobson

Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract.

Joanne Dobson

These writers' sleuths are engaged in an important endeavor. When they came out in the early 1980s, it was at a point of conjunction of feminism when readers were hungry for this kind of role model.

Joanne Dobson