MYSTERY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH I: Mystery Readers Journal (34:4)

Mystery Readers Journal: Mystery in the American South I (Volume 34:4: Winter 2018-2019) is available now as a PDF and will shortly be available in hardcopy. Subscriber copies will be mailed within a week. We had so many articles, author essays, and reviews, that we had to split this themed issue into two. The first issue of Mystery Readers Journal in 2019 (Volume 35) will be Mystery in the American South II. If you contributed to this issue, but don't see your name in the table of contents, rest assured it will be in Mystery in the American South II. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this such a terrific issue.

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MYSTERY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH (Volume 34:4)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• It Was the Third of June, Another Sleepy, Dusty, Delta Day… by Margot Kinberg

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• Making Peace with the “Southern Writer” Label by Donna Andrews
• My Summer of the Suspected Spy by Mignon Ballard
• I Wasn’t Born in the South but I Got Here as Soon as I Could: How I Became a Damned Yankee by Nancy Bartholomew
• The Rebel Bishop by Paul A. Barra
• Confessions of a Carpetbagger by Ellen Byron
• You Can Take the Boy Out of West Virginia, But… by John Billheimer
• A Southern Life-Style and Tax Write-Off by Don Bruns
• My Heroines Will Always Be Southern by Ana Brazil
• Serving Up a Southern Mystery by Elizabeth S. Craig
• A Yankee in Virginia by Ellen Crosby
• A Casserole in the Freezer by Krista Davis
• What Does It Take to Be a “Southern” Writer? by D.J. Donaldson
• Over the River and Through the Woods by J.T. Ellison
• A Face Like a Beige Rock by Mary Anna Evans
• Southern as Three Rows of Okra by Bill Fitzhugh
• Georgia on My Mind by Judy Fitzwater
• Hidden in Backwoods Appalachia by Susan Furlong
• The Strength and Humor of Steel Magnolias by Barb Goffman
• On a Sunny Sea Island by Carolyn Hart
• A Poke Full of Death by Russell Hill
• Murder in Texas—Southern or Sui Generis? by Kay Kendall
• Haunted by Molly MacRae
• Con Artists Make Their Mark Down South by Lynda McDaniel
• Don’t Write What You Know by John McMahon
• The Changing South by Sandra Parshall
• Endless Stories by J.M. Redmann
• Serendipity Rides the Back Roads by Sarah Shankman
• Jersey by Birth—Southern at Heart by Jessica Speart
• Moving South: Heroic Women, Over-Protective Men, and a Mess of Murders by Maureen Tan
• “Look Away, Look Away” by Art Taylor
• The R Word by Tina Whittle
• The Original Music City Mystery Series Returns by Steven Womack

COLUMNS

• Murder in Retrospect: Reviews by Sandie Herron, Ali Karim, L.J. Roberts, and Lesa Holstine
• Real Crime Southern Style by Cathy Pickens
• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph