AMANDA CROSS AND “THE QUESTION OF MAX”
AMANDA CROSS AND “THE QUESTION OF MAX”

Summary/Abstract: Carolyn Heilbrun, writing as Amanda Cross, had written four mystery novels prior to The Question of Max in 1976. Perhaps secure in her success, Heilbrun became politically strident and partisan in this novel, starting a trend enduring in her later novels. Her villains thereafter often were her more "politically incorrect" characters. Her novels remained entertaining but her ideological bias became quite obvious. Thus her later fiction should be understood in terms of its political posturing on social issues of interest to her, with gender issues being high among these.

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