Girl Detectives and Gothic Femininity

Megan Abbott has authored twelve novels, co-created a TV series, and is a respected critical scholar on crime fiction and domestic noir. This is the first book-length study of her major novels. Girl Detectives and Gothic Femininity traces the development of Abbott''s evolving use of genre tropes from crime fiction to horror and the gothic in order to elucidate the way her work exposes and dismantl...