Mean Streets: A Journal of American Crime and Detective Fiction Volume 1

Mean Streets is the first scholarly journal to specialize in a significant and expanding category of American literature: mystery and detective fiction. Volume 1 provides an appropriate venue for scholars who are interested primarily in the American practitioners of the genre such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Rex Stout, Sue Grafton, Ross Macdonald, and many others. Volume 1 focuses on the work of Sue Grafton.