Contents
Editorial CHARLOTTE BEYER 5
“Chick Noir”: Shopaholic Meets Double Indemnity VICTORIA KENNEDY 19
A Japanese-American Sam Spade: The Metaphysical Detective in Death in Little Tokyo, by Dale Furutani CARLA PORTILHO 39
Bloody Women: How Female Authors Have Transformed the
Scottish Contemporary Crime Fiction Genre
LORNA HILL 52
Discipline and Murder: Panoptic Pedagogy and the Aesthetics of Detection in J.G. Ballard’s Running Wild CORNELIA MACSINIUC 72
“I Stand Out Like a Raven”: Depicting the Female Detective and
Tudor History in Nancy Bilyeau’s The Crown
CHARLOTTE BEYER 91
Excerpt from Auggie’s Revenge
ALEX KUDERA 112
What Big Teeth She Has
ELLA MCLENNAN 122
True Crime
CHARLOTTE BEYER 131
Ulysses of Embra
PAUL JOHNSTON 133
Book Reviews
Detective Types and Criminal Minds REBECCA MARTIN 143
The Teaching Life as a House of Troubles DON RIGGS 146
Investigating Crime in Margaret Atwood’s Oeuvre CHARLOTTE BEYER 149
Soviet History as Crime Scene STUART HUNT 153
Gender on the Agenda CHARLOTTE BEYER 156