Messent, Peter B.
The crime fiction handbook [electronic resource] / Peter Messent. - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : John Wiley & Sons, 2013. - x, 262 p. - Blackwell literature handbooks .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Sj�owall and Per Wahl�o�o : 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, Swedish--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN3448.D4 / M435 2013eb
809.3/872
The crime fiction handbook [electronic resource] / Peter Messent. - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : John Wiley & Sons, 2013. - x, 262 p. - Blackwell literature handbooks .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Sj�owall and Per Wahl�o�o : 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, Swedish--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN3448.D4 / M435 2013eb
809.3/872