#GoodRead | Hardboiled Women
“The story of crime fiction in America has been largely understood as a male one,” Weinman begins her introduction to Women Crime Writers, and all one can do is ask the name of the planet on which she has been doing her reading. Women may form the majority of mystery writers, and they certainly form the majority of mystery readers—and if there ever was a level playing field on which men and women could compete, it was surely found in mystery fiction.
Read Joseph Bottum's full article at The Washington Free Beacon here…