An Unsuitable Job for a Woman was awarded a Scroll by the Mystery Writers of America
. Critic Richard Gidez
commended it as literate, intelligent, stylishly written,
Priestman, Martin. “P. D. James and the Distinguished Thing”. On Modern British Fiction, edited by Zachary Leader, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 234-57.
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British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Reception
Ruth Rendell
RR
received an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America
in 1974 for her storyThe Fallen Curtain, again in 1976 for a story collection featuring this title, The Fallen Curtain...
Textual Production
Ruth Rendell
RR
used her pseudonym Barbara Vine for the first time, for a semi-historical novel, A Dark-Adapted Eye, which won her an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America
in 1986.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
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Klein, Kathleen Gregory, editor. Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood, 1994.