Most Recent Articles from Clues: A Journal of Detection

• Dick Francis's Six-Gun Mystique.(mystery writer)(Critical Essay) 

  In The Six-Gun Mystique, John Cawelti analyzes the conventions and themes of the western genre, including how the types of characters help create...

  09/22/00 by Schaffer, Rachel · More from publication

• Writing for Fun: Interview with Peter Corris, Author of the Cliff Hardy Detective Novels.(Interview) 

  CM: I was pleased to be able to interview you because I'm not someone who knows you from crime fiction writing, although I must admit to reading...

  09/22/00 by Moore, Clive · More from publication

• Ellis Peters's Felse Series: The Road to Brother Cadfael, and More.(Critical Essay) 

  In October 1995, while reflecting on Edith Pargeter's death, I resolved to finish a project I had been working on for several years: reading, or...

  09/22/00 by Reynolds, William · More from publication

• Patricia Cornwell's "Unnatural Exposure" and the Representation of Space: Changing Patterns in Crime Fiction.(Critical Essay) 

  The representation of space, and particularly of city space, is of crucial importance in American hard-boiled detective fiction. In this article,...

  09/22/00 by Messent, Peter · More from publication

• Marlowe's Sheets or the Murder of Desire.(Philip Marlow, character in Raymond Chandler's detective fiction)(Critical Essay) 

  Despite the many perceptive studies of Chandler's crime novels, we have, in one area at least, tended to read him as does the narrator's mother...

  09/22/00 by Robinson, Gabrielle · More from publication

• Jennie Melville: The Forgotten Case of the Police Procedural.(Critical Essay) 

  British writer Jennie Melville (aka Gwendoline Butler) began writing in the mid 1950s. In addition to mysteries with a romantic twist and police...

  09/22/00 by Hadley, Mary · More from publication

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