South Central Review Vol. 17, no. 4

South Central Review

The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association

Vol. 18, no. 3-4 Fall-Winter 2001

Special Issue: Whose Body?: Recognizing Feminist Mystery and Detective Fiction

Guest Editor, Pamela R. Matthews and Mary Ann O'Farrell

Contents

Articles

Introduction: Whose Body?

Pamela R. Matthews and Mary Ann O’Farrell         p. 1

Illusive Evidence: Patricia Cornwell and The Body Double

Linda Mizejewski        p. 6

Interrogating Judicial Bodies: Women and the Legal Thriller

Priscilla L. Walton        p. 21

Emmuska Orczy: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910)

Joseph A. Kestner        p. 37

Tracing Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Forensic Detective Fiction

Joy Palmer        p. 53

The Butler Didn’t Do It So Now They’re Blaming the Maid: Defining a Black Feminist Trickster through the Novels of Barbara Neely

Nancy D. Tolson        p. 70

Warshawski’s Situation: Beauvoirean Feminism and the Hard-Boiled Detective

Kenneth Paradis        p. 84

“The Long Arm” and the Law

Valerie Rohy        p. 99

Reviews

Karen Halttunen, Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination

Mark L. Berrettini        p. 115

Rosemary Herbert, ed., The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing

Pamela R. Matthews        p. 116

R. Gordon Kelly, Mystery Fiction and Modern Life

Ilana Nash        p. 117

Joseph A. Kestner, Sherlock’s Men: Masculinity, Conan Doyle, and Cultural History

Richard Fusco        p. 119

Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, eds., Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism

Lynn A. Higgins        p. 120

Catherine Ross Nickerson, The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women

Lynn Wardley        p. 122

Stephen F. Soitos, The Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fiction

Kimberly Nichele Brown        p. 124

Ronald R. Thomas, Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

Mary Ann O’Farrell        p. 126

Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones, Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition

Sally Robinson        p. 128

Notes on Contributors        p. 135

Books Received        p. 138

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