i Pandora Women Crime Writers
Series Editors: Rosalind Coward and Linda Semple
In introducing the Pandora Women Crime Writers series we
have two aims: to reprint the best of women crime writers
who have disappeared from print and to introduce a new
generation of women crime writers to all devotees of the
genre. We also hope to seduce new readers to the pleasures
of detective fiction.
Women have used the tradition of crime writing inventively
since the end of the last century. Indeed， in many periods
women have dominated crime writing， as in the so-called
golden age of detective fiction， usually defined as between the
first novel of Agatha Christie and the last of Dorothy L.
Sayers. Often the most popular novels of the day， and those
thought to be the best in their genre were written b women.
But as in so man area ， - . Y
y s of women s wrmng， many of these
have been allowed to go out of print. Few people know the
~ names of Josephine Bell， Pamela Branch， Hilda Lawrence，
Marion Mainwaring or Anthony Gilbert (whose real name
. was.Lucy Malleson). Their novels are just as good and enter-
~ammg as when they were first written.
Women s importance in the field of crime writing is just as
vital today， p. D. James， Ruth Rendell and P
have all ensured that cri . . . atnoa Highsmith
ao well kno me writing is treated seriously. Not
terainist wn， but equally flourishing， is a new branch of
L~. crime writers. We plan to introduce many new
writers from this area， from En lan
The inte-rati ， g d and other countries.
~ on or reprints and new novels is sometimes
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