B. J. Rahn

Publications

Articles for Journals, Magazines and Newspapers

_______ "Agatha Christie and Mignon Eberhart: A False Analogy," CADS—Crime and Detective Stories, No. 49, pp.
                 Spring2006.

_______ "Agatha and Feminism," Problem at Pollensa Bay, No. 78, The Agatha Christie Collection, October 2004, pp. 3-8.

_______ "Trouble at the Bay," Problem at Pollensa Bay, No. 78, The Agatha Christie Collection, October 2004, pp. 9, 12-15.

_______ "Dorothy L. Sayers and Sherlock Holmes: The French Connection," Sayers in the 21st Century: Readers,
                 Writers and Critics on Dorothy L. Sayers, No. 3, Occasional Papers, Dorothy L. Sayers Society, August 2003,
                  pp. 19-27.

_______ "Agatha Christie in the 21st Century,” CADS--Crime and Detective Stories, No. 39, May 2001, pp. 39-40.

_______ "Agatha Christie," Mystery Writers of America Annual, ed. Angela Zeman. New York: Mystery Writers of America,
                 2001, pp. 53, 56.

_______ "Ngaio Marsh's Troy Alleyn," Promptbook, Ngaio Marsh Society International, 1999, pp. 18-28.

_______ "Dorothy L. Sayers and Sherlock Holmes: The French Connection," The Musgrave Papers, Volume 12, Autumn
                 1999, pp. 40-51.

_______ "P. D. James," Mystery Writers of America Annual, ed. P. M. Carlson, New York: Mystery Writers of America,
                 1999, pp. 57, 62.

________ "A Gaggle of Literary Governesses," A Gaggle of Governesses, Sherlock Holmes Society, 7 September
                   1997, pp. 59-63.

_______ "From Trash to Treasure: Detective Fiction Gains Acceptance in the Academy," Mystery Readers Journal, Autumn
                  1996, pp. 19-21.

_______ "On Agatha Christie's Trail in Devon," Mystery Scene, July/August 1996, pp. 17-19.

_______ "Moonlight and Sunlight in Berkshire," Sherlock Holmes Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3 (86th Issue), Winter 1995,
                  pp. 99-100.

_______ "MWA's 50th­­Marsh's 100th," Mystery Writers of America Annual, ed. P. M. Carlson. New York: Mystery Writers of
                  America, 1995, pp. 15-16.

_______ "Ngaio Marsh's Dramatic Detective Novels," Mystery Scene, No. 47, May/June 1995, pp. 15, 55.

_______ "Ngaio Marsh's Detective Novels of Manners," The Armchair Detective, Vol. 28, No. 2, Spring 1995, pp. 141-47.

_______ "Senior Citizen Sleuths: Detection as a Second Career," Mystery Readers Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3., Fall 1994,
                  pp. 4­9.

_______ "Dorothy L. Sayers' Bloomsbury," Sidelights, Vol. XLI, Dorothy L. Sayers Society, May 1994, pp. 14­20.

_______ "The Legacy of Dorothy L. Sayers," Mystery Writers of America Annual, April 1993, pp. 10­13.

_______ "The Lumber Room of the Mind: A Profile of Catherine Aird," Million: The Magazine of Popular Fiction, May/June
                 1992, pp. 29­35.

_______ "Rendezvous at Reichenbach: Sherlockian Centenary Revels," The Armchair Detective, Vol. 25, No. 2, Spring
                 1992, pp. 210­18.

_______ "Must Have Been Some Party," Sunday Book Review, New York Times, 11 Nov. 1990, p. 27.

_______ "Pardon Me, It's Murder," Interview with Elizabeth Ferrars, The Armchair Detective, Fall 1990, Vol. 23, No. 4,
                  pp. 408­20.

_______ "Anthony Boucher," Bouchercon XXI Program, Sept. 1990, p. 19.

_______ "Seeley Regester's The Dead Letter­­A Neglected Masterpiece," Mystery Writers of America Annual, May 1990,
                  p. 47.

_______ "Deadly Dames: Why English Women Write Good Whodunits," TWA Ambassador, September 1989, pp. 44,
                  61­64.

_______ "Mysteries: Modern Morality Plays," Christian Science Monitor, August 4, 1989, pp. 12­14.

_______ "No Mere Painted Backdrop: Setting in the Modern Crime Novel," Mystery Writers of America Annual, May 1989,
                  pp. 46­47.

_______ "Talk About Murder: English Women Crime Writers Discuss Their Craft," Hunter Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 1, January
                  1985,   pp. 11­15.

Essays in Books

_______ "In the Eye of the Beholder: Quirky Museums of Margery Allingham," Margery Allingham: 100 Years of a Great
                  Mystery Writer, ed. Marianne van Hoeven, Lucas Books, Alysham, Norfolk, 2004, pp. 261-79.

_______ "Douglas Clark," The Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Mystery and Thriller Writers since 1940, ed. Gina
                  MacDonald. Bruccoli Clark Layman, Gale Group, Sumter NC, 2003, pp. 90-101.

_______ "Who Gets Away with Murder in Detective Fiction," The Great Good Place? ed. Peter Nover. Frankfurt am Main
                 et al. Peter Lang, 1999, pp. 45-57.

_______ "Who Gets Away with It," The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, ed. Rosemary Herbert, John
                  Reilly, Catherine Aird. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 496-97.

_______ "Unusual Poisons," The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, ed. Rosemary Herbert, John Reilly,
                  Catherine Aird. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 337-38.

_______ "Unusual Murder Weapons," The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, ed. Rosemary Herbert, John
                  Reilly, Catherine Aird. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 492-93.

_______ "Seeley Regester," The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, ed. Rosemary Herbert, John Reilly,
                  Catherine Aird. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 380-81.

_______ "Motives for Murder," The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, ed. Rosemary Herbert, John Reilly,
                  Catherine Aird. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 296-98.

_______ "The Elderly Sleuth," The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, ed. Rosemary Herbert, John Reilly,
                  Catherine Aird. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 130-31.

_______ "The Butler Did It," The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, ed. Rosemary Herbert, John Reilly,
                  Catherine Aird. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 49-50.

_______ "Audience Participation Whodunits," The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, ed. Rosemary Herbert,
                 John Reilly, Catherine Aird. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 29-30.

_______ "Ruth Rendell," Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection and Espionage, ed. Robin
                  Winks and Maureen Corrigan. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998, pp. 773-90.

_______ "The Armchair Detective," Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, ed.
                  Robin Winks and Maureen Corrigan. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998, pp. 983-94.

_______ "P. M. Carlson," St. James' Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, ed. Jay Pederson Detroit: St. James Press, 1996,
                  pp. 150-52.

_______ "Foreward," Hours to Kill by Ursula Curtiss, Great Britain, Chivers Press, Black Dagger Series, Fall 1995, pp.
                  v-viii. 

_______ "June Thomson," Great Women Mystery Writers, ed. Kathleen Klein. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, October
                  1994, pp. 335­38.

_______ "Liza Cody," Great Women Mystery Writers, ed. Kathleen Klein. Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press, October 1994,
                  pp. 71­75.

_______ "The Marriage of True Minds," Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration, ed. Alzina Stone Dale. New York:
                  Walker Publishing, April 1993, pp. 51-65.

_______ "Introduction," Dark Nantucket Noon by Jane Langton. London: Chivers Press, Black Dagger Series, autumn
                  1992, pp. v-viii.

_______ "Miss Maud Silver," 100 Great Detectives, ed. Maxim Jackubowski. New York: Carroll & Graf, July 1991, pp.
                  194­97.

_______ "Helen Eustis," Magill's Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, Inc.,
                 Jan. 1989, pp. 579­584.

_______ "Josephine Bell," Magill's Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction. Pasadena, California: Salem Press,
                  Inc., Jan. 1989, pp. 99­106.

_______ "Seeley Regester: America's First Detective Novelist?" in The Sleuth and the Scholar, B. Rader and H. Zettler
                  eds. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, Feb. 1988, pp. 47­61.

Edited Works

_______ ed., Ngaio Marsh: The Woman and Her Work. Metuchen, N. J. & London: The Scarecrow Press, 1995, 252 pp