Historical Crime Fiction
Theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection
Guest editor: Rosemary Erickson Johnsen (Governors State University)
Proposal deadline: November 1, 2020
Historical crime fiction, or detective fiction using historical settings, has long been an important strand of the mystery genre. Well-placed to provide pleasures similar to armchair tourism combined with the potential to convey historical knowledge through the crime fiction’s focus on the quotidian amidst larger cultural landscapes, over the decades historical crime fiction has ranged from the whimsical to the didactic, offering insight into the author’s own time period and that of the historical setting. This theme issue of Clues seeks to explore the richness of historical crime fiction written in, and about, any time period. Topics of interest might include the following: Continuer la lecture de Appel à Propositions : Historical Crime Fiction, Theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection