Wisteria Cottage

Jack Mearns is a professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton. He authored John Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography (Oak Knoll, 2008).

Jack Mearns

Paranoia, Obsession, and Murder in Robert M. Coates’s “Wisteria Cottage”

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

Noir

The Burden of History in John Sanford’s “Make My Bed in Hell” and “The Land that Touches Mine”

Jack Mearns is a professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton. He authored John Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography (Oak Knoll, 2008).