An edition of The crime fiction handbook
(2012)
The crime fiction handbook
by Peter B. Messent
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Publish Date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons,
Wiley-Interscience,
Wiley-Blackwell
Language
English
Pages
272
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The crime fiction handbook
2012, John Wiley & Sons, Wiley-Interscience, Wiley-Blackwell
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0470657030 9780470657034
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The politics, main forms, and key concerns of crime fiction. The politics of crime fiction; The types of crime fiction; Classical detective fiction; Hard-boiled detective fiction; The police novel; Transgressor fictions; Vision, supervision, and the city; Crime and the body; Gender matters; Representations of race
Discussions of individual texts. Edgar Allan Poe: "The murders in the Rue Morgue"; Arthur Conan Doyle : The sign of four; Agatha Christie : The murder of Roger Aykroyd; Dashiell Hammett : The Maltese falcon; Raymond Chandler : The big sleep; James M. Cain : Double indemnity; Patricia Highsmith : The talented Mr. Ripley; Chester Himes : Cotton comes to Harlem; Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö : The laughing policeman; James Ellroy : The black dahlia; Thomas Harris : The silence of the lambs; Patricia Cornwell : Unnatural exposure; Ian Rankin : The naming of the dead; Stieg Larsson : The girl with the dragon tattoo.
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Includes index.
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