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Drawing together classic crime writers such as Agatha Chrisite, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham alongside contemporary counterparts such as Patricia Cornwell, Minnette Walters and Val McDermid, the “Deadlier than the male” collection celebrates the very best women crime writers from the early years of the last century right through to the present day. 

Although much may have changed since the likes of Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Wimsey solved their first cases, the ability of women crime writers to ensnare their reader in their web of intrigue is undiminished (and arguably represents on of the few fiction genres where women writers are read by just as many men as women).  Enter their lair if you dare!