Includes material on "Dorothy Sayers, Josephine Tey, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Anna Katherine Green, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Margaret Millar, Emma Lathen, Amanda Cross."

Each of us has a narrative compass, a story that has guided our lifework. In this extraordinary collection, women scholars from a variety of disciplines identify and examine the stories that have inspired them, haunted them, and shaped their research, from Little House on the Prairie to Little Women, from the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Nancy Drew, Mary Jane, and even the Chinese memoir Jottings from...