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Places for dead bodies / by Gary Hausladen.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hausladen, Gary, 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2000.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism.
Police in literature.
Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism.
Popular literature > English-speaking countries > History and criticism.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Geography in literature.
Setting (Literature)
Detective and mystery stories, American
Detective and mystery stories, English
Geography in literature
Place (Philosophy) in literature
Police in literature
Popular literature
English-speaking countries
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Evolution of the Place-Based Police Procedural
  • The Police Procedural Genre
  • Placed-Based Police Procedurals
  • Why Do We Read This Stuff, Anyway?
  • Murder in America
  • The Navajo Counery of Tony Hillerman
  • The Cherokee Country of Jean Hager
  • The New Orleans of James Lee Burke
  • The New Orleans of Julie Smith
  • The Houston and Latin America of David Lindsey
  • The American Midwest of P.M. Carlson
  • The American Northwest of J.A. Jance
  • Susan Dunlap's Berkeley
  • The Canadian North of Scott Young
  • The Mexico of Paco Taibo
  • Conclusion
  • Murder in the United Kingdom and Ireland
  • The London of P.D. James
  • Colin Dexter's Oxford
  • Rural England: The Yorkshire of Peter Robinson
  • Glasgow and the Scotland of Peter Turnbull
  • Dublin and the Ireland of Bartholomew Gill
  • Conclusion
  • Murder on the European Continent
  • The Italy of Michael Dibdin
  • The Provincial France of Nicolas Freeling.
  • The Amsterdam of Janwillem van de Wetering
  • The Stockholm of Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall
  • Conclusion
  • From Moscow with Murder
  • Marin Cruz Smith
  • Stuart Kaminsky
  • Conclusion
  • Murder in the Orient Expressly
  • The Japan of Seicho Matsumoto
  • The Japan of James Melville
  • The Hong Kong of William Marshall
  • The Beijing of Cristopher West
  • Conclusion
  • Other Places for Murder
  • The Israel of Batya Gur
  • The Indian Subcontinent of H.R.F. Keating
  • The South Africa of James McClure
  • The Australian Outback of Arthur Upfield
  • Conclusion
  • Murder in Historical Context
  • The Roman Empire of Lindsey Davis
  • The Seventh-Century China of Robert Van Gulik
  • The Victorian England of Anne Perry
  • The Turn-of-the-Century Cairo of Michael Pearce
  • Conclusion
  • More Places for Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem
  • The Police Procedural as an Effective Conveyor of Place
  • Subplots and Secondary Agenda
  • What Happens When Authors Get Their Places Wrong?
  • Socially Contingent Places
  • The Police Procedural as a Source of Sense of Place
  • Appendix: Selected Series
  • Fictional Works Cited
  • Notes
  • Index.

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