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The Crime Fiction Handbook

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Messent, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Table of Contents:
  • THE CRIME FICTION HANDBOOK
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introductory Note
  • Part 1: Introduction
  • Part 2: 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 Narratives
  • Vision, Supervision, and the City
  • Crime and the Body
  • Gender Matters
  • Representations of Race
  • Part 3: Some KeyWorks in Crime Fiction
  • Edgar Allan Poe: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841)
  • Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four (1890)
  • Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
  • Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
  • Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)
  • James M. Cain: Double Indemnity (1936)
  • Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)
  • Chester Himes: Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965)
  • Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: The Laughing Policeman (1968)
  • James Ellroy: The Black Dahlia (1987)
  • Thomas Harris: The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
  • Patricia Cornwell: Unnatural Exposure (1997)
  • Ian Rankin: The Naming of the Dead (2006)
  • Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005)
  • End Note

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