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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.
Series Editor 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 (7 x 10), back issue
Pages: 116
Bibliographic Info:
Copyright Date: 2011
ISSN 0742-4248
Imprint: McFarland

Au Revoir, but Not Adieu
MARGARET KINSMAN      5
After seven years, the executive editor of Clues steps down from her position and says thank you to the loyal readers of Clues.

The Islamic Epistemology in a Western Genre: Ahmet Mithat Efendi’s Esrar-I Cinayat, the First Detective Novel of Turkish Literature
ZEYNEP TUFEKCIOGLU      7
The author examines the first Turkish detective novel, Esrar-I Cinayat (1884), by Ahmet Mithat Efendi and argues that the adaptation of crime fiction in the Ottoman context brought new developments to the genre. Esrar-I Cinayat’s innovative features reflect the Islamic epistemology that dominated Ottoman culture during the Tanzimat period.

True-Crime Narratives and Detective Fiction in Interwar Britain
VICTORIA STEWART      16
An examination of Dorothy L. Sayers’s essay “The Murder of Julia Wallace” and her short story “Blood Sacrifice” (both 1936) can help to illuminate the hitherto unacknowledged complexities of the relationship between true-crime narratives and detective fiction in the interwar period.

Sound, Silence, and the Cipher of Personality in the Novels of Raymond Chandler
ERIC RAWSON      30
The alienation of the hero of classic hard-boiled detective fiction results at least partly from his vexing relationship to the modern soundscape. Raymond Chandler’s protagonist often relies on sound and silence to meld imagination and perception into an explanatory picture of the corrupted world.

Tails, Gunfights, and Murder: The Role of the Automobile in the Noir Fiction of James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler
SHELBY SMOAK      40
The author discusses the dark and illicit uses of the automobile in James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) and Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (1939), concluding that Cain and Chandler transform cars from benign machines of transportation to tools with darker and more violent ends.

Maigret, Simenon, France: Social Class and Social Change in the 1930s Maigret Narratives of Georges
Simenon BILL ALDER       47
Two of Georges Simenon’s early Maigret novels are viewed in relation to the social development of interwar France. The author seeks to demonstrate that contemporary reality is the driving force of the stories and that plot, characterization, and setting are continually informed by Simenon’s own class position.

Rex Stout: Fortune and Formula
JOHN LITTLEJOHN      58
In the Zeck trilogy, Rex Stout added suspense to his Nero Wolfe series by creating a Moriarty figure as adversary for Wolfe. The author considers what might have motivated Stout to create Zeck and the extent to which the three Zeck novels demonstrate a variation on the already successful Wolfe pattern.

Gender and Genre in Mickey Spillane’s Vengeance Is Mine! (1950)
HEATHER DUERRE HUMANN      66
Although Vengeance Is Mine! (1950) relies on the generic conventions of hardboiled fiction, the narrative goes beyond uncovering whodunit by revealing mid–twentieth-century anxieties about gender roles and gender normativity. Spillane’s inclusion of a transgender character complicates questions of gender identity for both his contemporary readership and a modern audience.

Aging in F(r)iendship: “Big Ger” Cafferty and John Rebus
SARA MARTÍN ALEGRE      73
Ian Rankin’s series featuring Scottish detective inspector John Rebus chronicles his hero’s tense bonding with gangster Big Ger Cafferty. Both men age in parallel for decades in what Rebus might call “f(r)iendship.” Their bonding is based on a mutual need for validation as obsolescent patriarchal men but also on Rebus’s bitter realization that, although he must accept legal retirement, the villain need not renounce power.

Policing Big Sky Country: Robert Sims Reid’s Montana Procedurals
RACHEL SCHAFFER      83
Robert Sims Reid’s five police procedurals present detailed information about how detectives and uniformed officers do their jobs, reflecting the conventions and themes of the traditional procedural while highlighting the influences of their setting in western Montana on mood, characters, and psychological realism.

Alias Atwood, Alias Author, Alias Murder
LISA A. WELLINGHOFF      92
The author discusses Margaret Atwood’s construction of authorship in several works, which involves motifs such as death and leads the reader to become a detective.

The Last Word: H. R. F. Keating—The Writer and the Man
SIMON BRETT      98
The president of the Detection Club pays tribute to the late crime writer and critic H. R. F. Keating, highlighting aspects of his career and his versatility.

BOOK REVIEWS
J. K. Van Dover. Making the Detective Story American: Biggers, Van Dine and Hammett and the Turning Point of the Genre, 1925–1930. PAMELA BEDORE      101

Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley, eds. A Companion to Crime Fiction. JOHN SCAGGS      103

Bulletin Board      105

Index, Volume 29      107

Call for Papers: Paranormal Mysteries      111
Call for Papers: Hitchcock and Adaptation      113

Author Guidelines are on page 115

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