Hardboiled and High Heeled The Woman Detective in Popular Culture [Hardcover]

Can a gumshoe wear high heels? In a genre long dominated by men, women are now taking their place-as authors and as characters-alongside hard-boiled legends like Sam Spade and Mike Hammer. Hardboiled and High Heeledexamines the meteoric rise of the female detective in contemporary film, television, and literature.

Richly illustrated and written with a fan's love of the genre, Hardboiled and High Heeledis an essential introduction to women in detective fiction, from past to present, from pulp fiction to blockbuster films.Linda Mizejewski is Professor of English and Chair of the Women's Studies Department at Ohio State University. She is author of Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture andCinema and Divine Decadence: Fascism, FemaleSpectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowles. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.