Een bundel over Engelstalige detectives, geschreven door vrouwen. De bundel bevat de volgende bijdragen: Gender and genre : the woman detective and the diffusion of generic voices / door Glenwood Irons: Amelia Butterworth : the spinster detective / door Joan Warthling Roberts: The detective heroine and the death of her hero : Dorothy Sayers to P.D. James / door SueEllen Campbell: Gray areas : P.D. James's unsuiting of Cordelia / door Nicola Nixon: Questing women : the feminist mystery after feminism / door Sandra Tomc: From spinster to hipster : the 'suitability' of Miss Marple and Anna Lee / door Glenwood Irons en Joan Warthling Roberts: Nancy Drew : the once and future Prom queen / door Bobbie Ann Mason: Feminist murder : Amanda Cross reinvents womanhood / door Jeanne Addison Roberts: Murders academic : women professors and the crimes of gender / door Susan J. Leonardi: Talkin'Trash and Kickin'Butt : Sue Grafton's hard-boiled feminism / door Scott Christanson: The female dick and the crisis of heterosexuality / door Ann Wilson: 'Friends is a weak word for it' : female friendship and the spectre of lesbianism in Sara Paretsky / door Rebecca A. Pope: Habeas corpus : feminism and detective fiction / door Kathleen Gregory Klein.