"The Mystery Fancier," Vol. 1, No. 4 (July 1977), contains: "The Mysteries of Pseudonymous Professors," by Joseph Barbato, "The Wit and Wisdom of the Mystery Story: Quotations from the Mysteries -- Part IV," by Marvin Lachman, "The Programmed Writing of Dean R. Koontz," by George Kelley, "Further Excursions into the Wacky World of Harry Stephen Keeler," by Art Scott, and "The Nero Wolfe Saga, Part II," by Guy M. Townsend.
This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.
Volume 3 Number 1 of The Mystery Fancier contains: "Gene Stratton-Porter: Mistress of the Mini-Mystery," by Jane S. Bakerman, "The Len Deighton Series," by Jeff Banks and Harry Dawson, "Kim Philby, Master Spy in Fact and Fiction," by Theodore P. Dukeshire, "Bouchercon, 1978: IX and Counting," by Donald A. Yates, "The Nero Wolfe Saga, Part XI," by Guy M. Townsend, and "An Index of Books Reviewed in TMF Volume 2," compiled by David H. Doerrer.
Volume 13 Number 4 of The Mystery Fancier, Fall 1992, contains: "An Interview with Ed Mcbain," by Robert E. Skinner, "Science and Technology in the Writings of Frederick Irving Anderson," by Ben Fisher, "Father Brown's Final Adventure," by Joe R. Christopher, "The Exit of Father Brown," by Ola Strom, "The Short Stop," by Marvin Lachman, "Crime Novelists as Writers of Children's Fiction VIII, Doroth L. Sayers," by William A. S. Sarjeant, "The Greatest Misogynist of Them All," by Maryell Cleary, "The Backward Reviewer," by William F. Deeck, "It's About Crime," by Marvin Lachman.
The Mystery Fancier Volume 2 Number 4, July 1978, contains: "The Caper Novels of Tony Kenrick," by George Kelley, "Robert Rostand and Mike Locken," by Theodore P. Dukeshire, "Bowlers, Beer, Bravado, and Brains: Anthony Gilbert's Arthur Crook," by Jane S. Bakerman, "Raymond Chandler on Film, Addendum," by Charles Shibuk, "It's About Crime," by Marvin Lachman, "Thomas Chastain and the New Police Procedural," by Larry L. French, and "The Nero Wolfe Saga, Part VIII," by Guy M. Townsend.
Essays on American writers whose lives and careers span the history of hard-boiled writing, from its birth in American pulp magazines of the 1920s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Characteristic of this writing is an objective viewpoint, impersonal tone, violent action, colloquial speech, tough characters and understated style, usually but not limited to detective or crime fiction.
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
