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Crime fiction / John Scaggs.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Scaggs, John, 1970- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:	New critical idiom.
Subjects:	Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism. Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism. Crime in literature. Detective and mystery stories, American. Detective and mystery stories, English. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Contents: Series editor's preface ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; A chronology of crime ; Mystery and detective fiction ; The hard-boiled mode ; The police procedural ; The crime thriller ; Historical crime fiction ; Glossary ; Suggestions for further reading ; Select bibliography ; Index.