Detective Fiction
Volume 42, Number 5
July / August 2021
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
David Watson’s Introduction to Focus: Detective Fiction
Eric Sandberg reviews Chan Ho-Kei’s Second Sister
Daiana Gârdan reviews Transnational Crime Fiction: Mobility, Borders and Detection
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney reviews Keith Ridgway’s Hawthorn & Child and Keith Ridgway’s A Shock
Lawrence Ware reviews HBO’s Watchmen
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
