{"product_id":"9781616461454","title":"Clues and Corpses: The Detective Fiction and Mystery Criticism of Todd Downing","description":"Clues and Corpses investigates the life and genre writing of Oklahoma Choctaw detective novelist Todd Downing (1902-1974). Included in this volume are nearly 300 annotated mystery book reviews from the 1930s by Downing and Downing's essay \"Murder is a Rather Serious Business\" (1943), as well as analysis of Downing's own detective fiction, most of which is set in Mexico.\u003cp\u003eCurtis Evans, Ph.D. is the author of The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization (LSU Press, 2001), winner of the Bennett H. Wall Award from the Southern Historical Association, and Masters of the \"Humdrum\" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961 (McFarland Press, 2012). He has written extensively about crime and mystery fiction for CADS: Crime and Detective Stories and Mystery*File and also at his own blog, The Passing Tramp (thepassingtramp.blogspot.com).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coachwhip Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063660822768,"sku":"9781616461454","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616461454_p0.jpg?v=1763850123","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616461454","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}