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In 1990, Stuart Coupe was working as a freelance journalist when he realised that there was no Australian magazine devoted to crime fiction. To fill this gap Coupe founded Mean Streets : A Quarterly Journal of Crime, Mystery and Detection, producing the first issue in October 1990.
