Who Reads What: Thrillers, Mysteries, and Gender Lines
By Linda Rodriguez
May 8, 2013Thrillers and mysteries have long been seen as split along gender lines, and for the first seventy years or so of the twentieth century, they actually were. But things have been changing. Thrillers were originally written by, for, and about men. The earliest thriller, The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers published in 1903,…