The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Lauren Wright Douglas

  • Lauren Wright Douglas’s The Rage of Maidens

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    Heidi Darroch
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    My fall research task was drafting a chapter on lesbian private investigators in Canadian crime fiction. I’m only about halfway there, but it’s been a lot of fun. I discussed Eve Zaremba‘s fiction recently, and I’m reading Liz Bugg, Jackie Manthorne, and Marsha Mildon. Naiad Press was a lesbian publishing house headed by the formidable…

  • Eve Zaremba and the Canadian Lesbian Detective Novel

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    Heidi Darroch
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    Toronto writer Eve Zaremba passed away last month. She was a major figure in Canadian writing and social justice. Her fictional sleuth Helen Keremos, who made her debut in 1978 in A Reason to Kill, is generally acknowledged to be the first lesbian private eye. (An American book I haven’t yet read, M.F. Beal’s Angel…