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Rue Morgue Press, 2005
originally published 1938
190 pp
British author Dorothy Bowers died ten years after the publication of this novel from tuberculosis. Bowers had wanted to "make creative literary work" her career, but found herself the owner of “a fairly regular spate of rejection slips from various editors” instead. She also read a great deal, and discovered an "intermittent" attraction to detective fiction, selecting "only ...the best." She eventually started writing mystery novels herself which ultimately led to her being inducted to the detection club in 1948, but her novels soon went out of print. Thanks to Rue Morgue Press, her works live on and are widely available. Sadly, she's been overlooked or forgotten at mainstream crime fiction/mystery info sites like stopyourekillingme.com, an oversight which, imho, needs to be corrected.
Rue Morgue Press, 2005
originally published 1938
190 pp
British author Dorothy Bowers died ten years after the publication of this novel from tuberculosis. Bowers had wanted to "make creative literary work" her career, but found herself the owner of “a fairly regular spate of rejection slips from various editors” instead. She also read a great deal, and discovered an "intermittent" attraction to detective fiction, selecting "only ...the best." She eventually started writing mystery novels herself which ultimately led to her being inducted to the detection club in 1948, but her novels soon went out of print. Thanks to Rue Morgue Press, her works live on and are widely available. Sadly, she's been overlooked or forgotten at mainstream crime fiction/mystery info sites like stopyourekillingme.com, an oversight which, imho, needs to be corrected.
There are a couple of good articles about Bowers that you can find online -- here's one of them, written by author Christopher Fowler for The Independent; another one is found at the website of Rue Morgue Press. If anyone has any other sources of info, please let me know. I would love to know more about her.
anyway - I enjoyed her book, am ready to read another, so if obscure British crime-writing women are up your alley, you may want to check out what I have to say about the book.
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