Awards

• Nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Award—Mystery Writers of America 2018 (United States)

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Author:   Curtis Evans
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9780786499922

ISBN 10:   0786499923
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   12 December 2016
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction (Curtis Evans) Part One: Locked Doors The Queer Story of Fergus Hume (Lucy Sussex) A Redemptive Masquerade: Gender Identity in Samuel Hopkins Adams’ The Secret of Lonesome Cove (J. F. Norris) Dropping Hairpins in Golden Age Detective Fiction: ­Man-Haters, Green Carnations and Gunsels (Noah Stewart) “Queer in some ways”: Gay Characters in the Fiction of Agatha Christie (John Curran) Agatha Christie: Norms and Codes (Michael Moon) The Unshockable Mrs. Bradley: Sex and Sexuality in the Work of Gladys Mitchell (Brittain Bright) “Less beautiful in daylight”: Josephine Tey and the Anxiety of Gender (J.C. Bernthal) “Mutually devoted”: Female Relationships in Josephine Tey’s Miss Pym Disposes (Moira Redmond) “The man with the laughing eyes”: Socialism and ­Same-Sex Desire in G. D. H. Cole’s The Death of a Millionaire (Curtis Evans )114 Humdrum Ecstasies: C. H. B. Kitchin and His Detective, Malcolm Warren (Michael Moon) “Two young men who write as one”: Richard Wilson Webb, Hugh Callingham Wheeler, Male Couples and The Grindle Nightmare (Curtis Evans) Queering the Investigation: Explanation and Understanding in Todd Downing’s Detective Fiction (Charles J. Rzepka) “A bad, bad past”: Rufus King, Clifford Orr, College Drag and Detective Fiction (Curtis Evans) Foppish, Effeminate, or “a little too handsome”: Coded Character Descriptions and Masculinity in the Mystery Novels of Mignon G. Eberhart (Rick Cypert) Part Two: Skeleton Keys “The finest triumvirate of perversion, horror and murder written this spring”: Frank Walford’s Twisted Clay (James Doig) Wayne Lonergan’s Long Shadow: A Forties Murder and Its Literary Legacy (Drewey Wayne Gunn) “Claude was doing all right”: Homosexuality, ­Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Evolution of Ross Macdonald (Tom Nolan) “Elegant stuff …⁠ of its sort”: Gore Vidal’s Edgar Box Detective Novels (Curtis Evans) “Adonis in person”: Same-Sex Intimacy and Male Eroticism the Detective Novels of Beverley Nichols (J. F. Norris) More Than Fiction: Troublesome Themes in the Life and Writing of Nancy Spain (Bruce Shaw) Man to Man: The ­Two-Men Theme in the Novels of Patricia Highsmith (Nick Jones) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Joseph Hansen’s Known Homosexual (Josh Lanyon) I Am the Most! Camping It Up in George Baxt’s Pharoah Love Mystery Series (J. F. Norris) About the Contributors Index

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Uncover queer themes in crime fiction written before 1969, from the Victorian era to the 1960s --ProtoView.

Author Information

Curtis Evans, an independent scholar and book dealer, has published numerous articles and essays on detective fiction as well as an award-winning book on industry and labor in the American South. He lives in Germantown, Tennessee.

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