Product details
- Paperback: 700 pages
- Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press; Revised ed. edition (December 7, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1590584228
- ISBN-13: 978-1590584224
Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the
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