Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring 2015)

by Janice M. Allan (Editor)

Overview

For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476621852
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	10/13/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	501 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Executive editor Janice M. Allan is a senior lecturer in English studies in the School of English, Sociology, Politics & Contemporary History at the University of Salford in England. Series Editor Elizabeth Foxwell, an Agatha Award winner, is managing editor of Clues: A Journal of Detection. Margaret Kinsman, consulting editor of Clues and 2016 Raven Award recipient, is a visiting research fellow in popular culture at London South Bank University, United Kingdom. She has published numerous articles related to crime fiction and has presented papers and chaired panels at international conferences.

Table of Contents

Introduction (Janice M. Allan) 5
Now You See Her—Now You Don’t: Household Spies in Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley’s Secret (Rachel Smillie) 8
“Something in a New Key”: Democratizing Poe’s Ratiocination in Psych and Elementary (Patrick Kent Russell) 18
Far from Home and Near to Harm: Mazes, Rhizomes, and Illusory Domestic Spaces in Richard Stark’s Parker Novels (Gregory Alan Phipps) 30
Scarlet Fever: Communism, Crime, and Contagion in James Ellroy’s
The Big Nowhere (Joshua Meyer) 40
Kathy Reichs’s Contiki Crime: Investigating Global Feminisms (Lili Pâquet) 51
“The Dweller upon the Threshold” and the Infringement of the Unknown in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot”
(David Beck) 62
In Search of No Thing: Latin American Detection, Irreal Investigations, and the Politics of Noncoincidence (Devin Fromm) 72
The Professor Rises: Science, Victorian Viagra, and Masculine Libido in “The Creeping Man” (Joshua A. Wade) 82
Bouncing Big: Elmore Leonard’s Primal Scene (Charles J. Rzepka) 92
This Is China and Shit Happens: Space in Rock, Paper, Tiger by Lisa Brackmann and Other Crime Narratives Set in China and Russia (M. Isabel Santaularia I Capdevila) 101
The Strange Case of Harriet Vane: Dorothy L. Sayers Anticipating
Poststructuralism in the 1930s (Joel Armstrong) 112
BOOK REVIEWS
John Bude. The Cornish Coast Murder and The Lake District Murder.
Fred Isaac 123
Margaret-Anne Hutton. French Crime Fiction 1945–2005: Investigating World War II. Rachel Schaffer 124
Justin Gifford. Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing. Norlisha F. Crawford 127
John Cullen Gruesser. Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction. Marla Harris 129
Barbara Pezzotti. Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview. Gianna Martella 131
Call for Papers: Reappropriating Agatha Christie 134
Author Guidelines 136