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Forms of Agency in Women's Detective Fiction in the Seventies

Rereading P D James' An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) and Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat (1970)

Primary texts

Spark, Muriel (1986) [1970] The Driver's Seat Penguin Books

James, P., D. (2000) [1972] An Unsuitable Job For a Woman Faber and Faber

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