Martha Grimes walks into a pub
Subtitle: essays on a writer with a load of mischief
By: edited by Sarah D. Fogle
Publisher: McFarland; McFarland & Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780786442867
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "This collection of ten critical essays provides an in-depth analysis of Grimes' oeuvre, principally the Richard Jury, Emma Graham, and Andi Oliver series. The essays address Grimes' themes of parental abandonment, loneliness, obsession, greed, mistaken and dual identity, the resilience of children, stunted romantic relationships and animal cruelty"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Martha Grimes and the English pub / Marcia J. Songer; title: "You're always away when the ax-murderers come": the plight of disposable children / Deane Mansfield-Kelley and Lois A. Marchino; title: The significance of place / Mary Alice Money; title: "A play for us all": Medea and the Spirit Lake novels / Amy Hausser; title: Identity, simulacra, and the hyperreal: detectives, murders, and victims / Rhonda Knight; title: The woman's way: gender and fictional style / Nancy Eliot Parker; title: Humor, murder and the ludicrous in human behavior / Mimosa Stephenson; title: Fear of commitment: Richard Jury, Melrose Plant, and women / Sherry Ginn; title: Emma Graham, detective quest hero / Sarah D. Fogle; title: Mystery, murder, misery and meat / Diane Calhoun-French.