by Linda Mizejewski · Routledge · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780415969710
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«Hardboiled & High Heeled» is Linda Mizejewski's essay on the female detective, in paperback, published by Routledge (240 pages, in English).
A cultural criticism essay that studies the emergence of the female detective in film, television and the novel. Mizejewski moves from pulp to blockbusters and examines how women writers and characters make their way in a genre once dominated by men, with figures such as Clarice Starling or Kinsey Millhone.
The work was originally published in 2004 in English and bears the subtitle The Woman Detective in Popular Culture. It includes bibliographic references (pp. 215-222) and an index.
For students of cultural and gender studies and fans of detective fiction interested in the evolution of the female detective.
