Mean Streets: A Journal of American Crime and Detective Fiction Volume 3

Mean Streets is the first scholarly journal to specialize in a significant and expanding category of American literature: mystery and detective fiction. The "Golden Age" of mystery and detective fiction is generally agreed upon as bounded by World War I and World War II. While the designation has been applied to both British and American fiction, it is most often attributed to British fiction alone. Mean Streets Volume 3 seeks to analyze this "Golden Age" and its Implications in American mystery and detective fiction.