This Joint is A-Hoppin'

Do women authors get overlooked for the major crime fiction awards? Are they less likely to be reviewed by the most prestigious media outlets? Those questions prompted Charlotte MacLeod, Kate Mattes, Betty Francis, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard and Susan Dunlap to form Sisters in Crime (SinC) at the annual Edgars Week in 1987. The original aim was to promote the professional development and advancement of women crime writers to achieve equality in the industry, but th...