Tuesday, January 16, 2007

From Alleyways to Academia

Just out: the latest editions of Clues: A Journal of Detection and Mystery Readers Journal.

The former mag, devoted to Chicago novelist Sara Paretsky, creator of private eye V.I. Warshawski, contains essays with such titles as “Ruined Landscapes, Flooding Tunnels, Dark Paths: Sara Paretsky’s Gothic Vision” and “Mythical Musical Connections: The Mother-Daughter Bond in the Work of Sara Paretsky.”

Meanwhile, the Winter 2006-2007 number of Mystery Readers Journal continues its theme from the fall issue, “Academic Mysteries.” Look for Carole Shmurak’s history of professors as detectives, Ruth Dudley Edwards’ “Making Fun of Academics,” Camille Minichino’s consideration of the “disparity between the ivory towers of academia and the nitty-gritty world of mysteries,” and much more.

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