Table of Contents

List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgments

Part I: The Edition
Introduction: “Brilliant Detective cut off…”: The Blue Spill as an Incomplete MurderTextual Essay: "Too Much Attention to Detail...": The Composition of The Blue Spill
Reading Text: The Blue Spill

Part II: Essays
A Golden-Age Clue-Puzzle: The Blue Spill and Detective Fiction
Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound: A Career in Artistic Collaboration

Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

An authoritative scholarly edition of Ezra Pound's unfinished detective novel The Blue Spill - published for the first time - complete with notes and textual commentary and critical essays on its historical and cultural contexts.

About the Author

Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century and perhaps the key figure in defining and promoting Anglo-American poetic modernism. The Cantos – an epic poem written over 50 years – is his major poetic work.

Olga Rudge (1895-1996) was a concert violinist and long-time companion of Ezra Pound.

Mark Byron is Associate Professor in English Literature and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. His publications include Ezra Pound's Eriugena (Bloomsbury, 2014).

Sophia Barnes is Adjunct Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Reviews

A valuable edition of Ezra Pound and Olga Rudge’s little-known collaborative detective story, itself a mystery excellently unravelled by the editors. A must-read for Poundians, modernists and detective story devotees.
*Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia*