Neely was really a pioneer for female African-American mystery writers, and she has used Blanche's casework to send powerful, prescient, political and social messages.

Why does the Pacific Northwest seem to produce so many female mystery authors? It’s a mystery to Pepper Parker, who works at Vancouver’s last independent bookstore, Vintage Books. Parker just ...

Award-winning mystery writer Barbara Neely, who created what’s believed to be the first black female detective series in mainstream American publishing, has died following a brief illness ...

On the page, meanwhile, helped along by a new fashion for teen-sleuth stories, the girl detective gradually emerged to explore a new kind of American female identity. The first Nancy Drew cover ...

William Morrow has chosen 12 very successful women mystery writers to write Marple stories and there is hardly a false note. And I have read a LOT of Marple.

That “abundance” of women authors would be the three other female mystery writers — Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy — who were best-sellers of their time and whose ...

Authors Laura Lippman and John Sandford have been announced as the 2025 Grand Masters of this year’s Edgar Awards.. The Mystery Writers of America (MWA) confirmed the two writers as the special ...

Mystery Writers of America announced its nominations for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, including awards for best novel, first novel by an American author, paperback original, fact crime ...

Lillie’s meticulous research and skillful approach in “Blood Sisters” further explores this, joining other Native American mystery writers such as Ramona Emerson (“Shutter”), David Heska ...

Spring resident Diana Driver has been "messing around" as a writer for the last 15 years, but she decided to get serious a couple of years ago when she formed a women writers' support group called ...