List of Illustrations Foreword by Val McDermid Acknowledgements Introduction: Look for the Women 'Origins are Multifarious and Unclean!': the Beginnings of Crime Fiction Mrs Radcliffe as Conan Doyle? 'A Most Preposterous Organ of Wonder': Catherine Crowe 'I'm a Thief-taker, Young Lady' Getting Away with Murder: Mary Braddon 'Dead! And...Never Called Me Mother': Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood The (Feminine) Eye of the Law: Mary Helena Fortune A Jill-of-all-Writing-Trades: Metta Victoria Fuller Victor ('Seeley Regester') The Art of Murder: Anna Katharine Green Conclusion: 'She Has Got a Murderess in Manuscript in her Bedroom' A Timeline of Early True Crime and its Fiction Bibliography
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