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Lucy Sussex

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LUCY SUSSEX is a Senior Research Fellow at Melbourne University, Australia, with interests in Victoriana, Australiana, crime and women writers. She has published widely, having edited five anthologies, written three short story collections and the award-winning neo-Victorian novel The Scarlet Rider. In addition she is a weekly newspaper columnist.

Works

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Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction

The Mothers of the Mystery Genre

Crime Files

Lucy Sussex
Palgrave Macmillan

This book is a study of the "mothers" of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan...

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