![]() The book serves as something between a field manual and a spiritual text for Claire DeWitt, the PI created by author Sara Gran. This admonition comes from Détection by Jacques Silette, a book that joins a grand tradition of fascinating texts-within-texts, volumes that you long to pluck from some dusty shelf and peruse but cannot. If we do not put it first and foremost, always, there is no point in carrying on, in detection or in life. ![]() ![]() Janet HutchingsĪbove all, the inner knowing of the detective trumps every piece of evidence, every clue, every rational assumption. It’s evident from this post that he has extensive knowledge of the crime-fiction genre, past and present. Currently a Chicago-area resident, Chad is using his free time to pursue an M.A. He’s also written several plays that have been performed at theater companies around the country and had a creative nonfiction piece published in the literary journal Lunch Ticket. ![]() He makes his EQMM debut in our current issue, May/June 2019, with the story “The Smoking Bandit of Lakeside Terrace.” Previously, he had a paid fiction publication in the literary journal From the Depths. In the days when EQMM had a Department of Second Stories, legal-aid attorney Chad Baker would have qualified. ![]()
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