Marcia Muller and the female private eye : essays on the novels that defined a subgenre / edited by Alexander N. Howe and Christine A. Jackson.

Contents Changing the world, one detective at a time : the feminist ethos of Marcia Muller and Sharon McCone / Winter S. Elliott -- Crime, punishment, and some change in the McCone series / Chin-jau Chyan -- Imagining the margins : Muller's explorations of race / Maureen T. Reddy -- Gender and genre stretching in the non-McCone novels / Pamela E. Bedore -- Taking Edwin to lunch : developing the female hard-boiled detective in the early McCone novels / Patricia P. Buckler -- Sharon McCone : from PI to anti-terrorist / Priscilla L. Walton -- Searching for the past : nostalgia in the McCone novels / Kelly C. Connelly -- The journey of Sharon McCone, private investigator / Patricia L. Maida -- Anxious authorship : the detective fiction of Marcia Muller and Gertrude Stein / Jessica V. Datema -- The lost child : haunting motif in the McCone novels / Harriette C. Buchanan -- Muller earth : mythic topography in the Soledad County trilogy / Christine A. Jackson -- The deafening silence of the McCone series / Alexander N. Howe -- Conclusion : Marcia Muller in the American tradition : still breaching our insecurities / Christine A. Jackson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008024339
ISBN9780786438259 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0786438258 (pbk. : alk. paper)