Leigh Russell, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/leighrussellemail/ Mon, 18 Jul 2016 07:27:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Women In Crime Fiction http://booksbywomen.org/women-in-crime-fiction-by-leigh-russel/ http://booksbywomen.org/women-in-crime-fiction-by-leigh-russel/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2016 06:40:58 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16042 Women in early crime fiction are often placed in the role of helpless ‘damsel in distress’. This is not inevitably the case. Apart from his nemesis Moriarty, the one person who succeeds in outwitting Sherlock Holmes through sheer strength of character and intelligence is a woman, Irene Adler. But she is perceived as outside the […]

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