Authors
Chris Routledge is a freelance writer and editor whose 1998 PhD dissertation was on Raymond Chandler. In the 1990s and early 2000s he published several academic articles on crime fiction, including this one. He is also co-editor, with Adrienne Gavin, of Mystery in Children’s Literature (Palgrave, 2001).
He has made substantial contributions to many reference series for adults and children, including The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (4th ed. St James Press, 2000), The St James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (2000), Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America (2002), Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 1960s (2003), Fitzroy Dearborn’s Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era (2004). In 2002 he also contributed two 50,000-word volumes to U*X*L’s ten volume U*X*L American Decades and since spring 2004 he has been a regular contributor to Gale’s long-running Contemporary Black Biography series.
His most recent book is a history of the Robert Cain Brewery in Liverpool entitled Cain’s: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint (Liverpool University Press, 2008). With Siobhan Chapman he is co-editor of Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2005) and Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).
His personal website is here.
Esme Miskimmin is a freelance writer and editor with interests in crime and mystery writing and Renaissance drama. Her 2004 PhD dissertation was on inter-war crime fiction and she is currently writing a monograph on Dorothy L. Sayers for Liverpool University Press. Her co-edited volume Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900-1950 was published by Palgrave in March 2006 and she has a forthcoming chapter ‘The Golden Age: A Return to Eden? Responses to World War One in the Country-House Detective Story’ in Popular Responses to the First World War ed. Stacy Gillis. She is also writing an introductory textbook to Shakespeare, Starting Shakespeare (Continuum, Autumn 2008) and is currently an editorial assistant for the RSC Complete Works of Shakespeare, preparing scene-by-scene analyses for the individual editions of the plays. She has written a 6,000 word chapter on Dorothy L. Sayers for the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction, edited by Charles Rzepka and Lee Horsley.
