Clues, A Journal of Detection: The Case of John D MacDonald (Volume 1, No. 1)

135pp. In stiff card covers. Covers a little rubbed and chipped at edges, scuffed at base of spine, small label on front. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. The first issue of ‘Clues’, a biannual journal dedicated to crime fiction. This volume contains articles on Crime Fiction – Some Varieties of Historical Experience; Evil as Illusion in the Detective Story; Melodrama and Manners – Changing Attitudes to Class Distinction in English Detective Fiction, 1868-1939; Kojak, The Godfather and the City; Miss Jane Marple and Aging in Literature; Oscar Wilde and Sherlock Holmes; Vera Caspary’s Fascinating Females – Laura, Evvie and Bedelia; Old Sleuth, Nineteenth Century Nipper America’s First Serialized Detective and His World; John D MacDonald – A Little Ecology Goes a Long Way; Introduction and Comment – John D MacDonald; The Mythology of Crime and Violence; McGee’s Girls; The Making of a Tale-Spinner – John D MacDonald’s Early Pulp Mystery Stories; Cops and Detectives; Travis McGee as a Traditional Hero; The Reluctant Hero – Reflections on Vocation and Heroism in the Travis McGee Novels of John D MacDonald; The Science Fiction Mystery Novels of Asimov, Bester and Lem – Fusions and Foundations; Morality and the Detective Hero – Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe; Dignity in the Detective Novel; Martin Beck – The Swedish Version of Barney Miller Without the Canned Laughter; and John D MacDonald as a Social Critic.