After Agatha Author Forename:Sally is a pawn in a

is a pawn in a game he only dimly comprehends

twenty years before

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The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows

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After Agatha Author Forename:Sally is a pawn in a'After Agatha' is the first book to examine how British, American and Canadian female crime writers pursue their craft and what they think about crime writing. The book explores why so many women who face fear and violence in their daily lives should be so addicted to crime fiction, much of which features extreme violence. The book analyses why criminal justice professionals including police officers, forensic scientists, probation officers and