Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter 2008)

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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.

Elizabeth Foxwell, an Agatha Award winner, is managing editor of Clues: A Journal of Detection.

Executive Editor Margaret Kinsman
Managing Editor Elizabeth Foxwell
Format: softcover (6 x 9), back issue
Pages: 82
Bibliographic Info:
Copyright Date: 2008
ISSN 0742-4248
Imprint: McFarland

Publisher’s Comments      3

Investigating Domestic Disorder: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Detectives
Karen J. Jacobsen      5
Harriet Prescott Spofford’s role in the development of the detective tale has remained largely unexplored. In three stories—“In a Cellar,” “Mr. Furbush,” and “In the Maguerriwock”—Spofford uses the trope of the detective to investigate a number of anxiety-provoking issues in nineteenth-century society, particularly the chaos within the domestic sphere.

The “Test of Feminine Investigation” in Baroness Orczy’s Lady Molly of Scotland Yard Stories
Ellen Burton Harrington      24
Baroness Emmuska Orczy’s Lady Molly of Scotland Yard stories offer a bounded fantasy of female independence that allows the heroine to act with autonomy and use reason, along with “feminine investigation,” in a way that might offer support for a kind of New Woman. Still, this portrayal excludes women from the role of the male scientist-detective; ultimately, Lady Molly is valued for her ability to effectively police other women and her ultimate acquiescence to domestic ideology.

Tijuana the American Town: Images of the Corrupt City in Hammett’s “The Golden Horseshoe”
J. A. Zumoff      35
Dashiell Hammett’s short story “The Golden Horseshoe” (1924) presents a vision of society as fundamentally corrupt. Because it takes place in Tijuana, Baja California, many critics have read it as a description of Mexican or Tijuanan corruption. The author analyzes this corruption in Hammett’s story and argues that the story depicts a North American corruption rather than a Mexican corruption.

Feline, Not Canine: The Rise of the Female Arch-Villain in the 1940s Sherlock Holmes Films from Universal
Amanda J. Field      49
In 1942, Universal Studios “updated” Sherlock Holmes and recruited him to the war effort in a series of twelve B-movies starring Basil Rathbone. But what began as Nazi spy thrillers took
a new turn with the emergence of the female villain, a figure that tapped into masculine anxieties about newly independent women and presaged the femme fatale of film noir.

The Phenomenology of Noir Perception: Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place and Cornell Woolrich’s I Married a Dead Man
William Brevda      63
The author draws on Jean-Paul Sartre’s notion of the Other to analyze Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place (1947) and Cornell Woolrich’s I Married a Dead Man (1948). Hughes and Woolrich construct their novels around scenes that dramatize Sartre’s “revelation of the Other as a look” (Being, 475). Sartre’s phenomenology of perception lends itself to noir, and In a Lonely Place and I Married a Dead Man most powerfully dramatize his “Hell is other people” proposition.

Reviews
Mary W. Tannert and Henry Kratz, eds. and trans. Early German and Austrian Detective Fiction: An Anthology. Gundela Hachmann      73

David Geherin. Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction. Rachel Schaffer      75

Author Guidelines      78
Call for Papers: Chester Himes and His Legacy      79

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