{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0333674502?tag=bookfrontier-20","asin":"0333674502","authors":["S. Rowland","Susan Rowland","Clive Bloom"],"book_id":"9780333674505","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780333674505","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780333674505.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","description":"From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of forty-two key novels, this volume introduces these authors for students and the general reader in the context of their lives, and of critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780333674505","publication_date":"20001219","publisher":"Palgrave Macmillan","slug":"from-agatha-christie-to-ruth-rendell","subtitle":"British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction","title":"From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"SOC026000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Sociology","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}],"hint":[],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"SOC026000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Sociology","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Sociology","score":1,"slug":"sociology"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers who enjoy Sociology","Good for readers who enjoy Sociology."],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["N. Jones","Norman W. Jones"],"book_id":"9781349537242","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781349537242.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":5.8169,"title":"Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781349537242"},{"authors":["Allan I. Macinnes"],"book_id":"9780333597491","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780333597491.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":5.7558,"title":"The British Revolution, 1629-60","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780333597491"},{"authors":["G. Davidson","Guy Davidson"],"book_id":"9781349343126","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781349343126.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":5.7453,"title":"Queer Commodities","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781349343126"},{"authors":["Elizabeth St. Pierre","Wanda Pillow","E. St. Pierre"],"book_id":"9780415922760","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780415922760.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":5.6042,"title":"Working the Ruins","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780415922760"},{"authors":["Lee Horsley"],"book_id":"9780230218864","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780230218864.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":5.6018,"title":"The Noir Thriller","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780230218864"},{"authors":["J. O'Brien","John O'Brien"],"book_id":"9780312122065","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780312122065.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":5.5488,"title":"Milan Kundera and Feminist Criticism","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780312122065"},{"authors":["T. Khair","Tabish Khair","Johan Höglund"],"book_id":"9781137272614","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781137272614.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":5.5,"title":"Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781137272614"},{"authors":["K. Crane","Kylie Crane"],"book_id":"9781349433421","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781349433421.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":5.4686,"title":"Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781349433421"}],"topics":[],"what_you_get":["Reading lane: Sociology.","Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan."]},"llm_signals":null,"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":false,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":0,"goodreads_ratings_count":22,"goodreads_reviews_count":4,"quality_score":0.8414}}