Clues, A Journal of Detection (Volume 1, No. 2)

135pp. In stiff card covers (covers a little rubbed at edges, small label on front). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. The second issue of ‘Clues’, a biannual journal dedicated to crime fiction. This volume contains articles on A Sense of the Under Toad – Play in Mystery Fiction; The Use of Poison in Detective Fiction; Photo Detection – The Image as Evidence; Narrative Vision in the Hound of the Baskervilles; Agatha Christie’s Portrait of the Artist; Philo Vance’s Sunday Nights at the Old Stuyvesant Club; Seven Crime files of the 1930s – The Purest Puzzles of the Golden Age; The Spy Fiction of John Le Carre; Expiratory Symbolism in Lawrence Sanders’ The First Deadly Sin; California Babylon; The Hardboiled Detective in the Fallen World; Robert B Parker in the Hardboiled Tradition of American Detective Fiction; Spenserian Ethics – The Unconventional Morality of Robert B Parker’s Traditional American Hero; Sam Spade Talking; The Education of Jason Beard – A B Guthrie’s Western Suspense Stories