Crime concept in the detective novels of female (1936- 2010)

In our work the crime concept of female novelists have been studied. In the first party, biref history of detective novel, types, place of detective novels in Turkish literature and female novelists who are subjects of our work have been included. Due to the the fact that basic elements of detective novels is crime and to specify the crime rhetorics of female novelists in the second part, sociology and literature, crime theories have been considered. In the third part, the crime elements of novels included in our work have been studied under three main title - crime, organized and political crimes. In the formulized structure of detective novels the person resolving mystrey and crime has changed and varied over time. For the sake of seeing this chance in the fourth part, the heroes that revealed crime and criminals in the novels have been denoted. In the fifth part crime tools, whereas in the sixth part crime places have been discussed. To sump up, it has been revealed that our female novelists have gone beyond the usual formulas with their competent works and that they made important contributions to the detective literature which is identified with male writers.