The crime fiction handbook [electronic resource] / Peter Messent.
By: Messent, Peter B.
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BookSeries: Blackwell literature handbooks. Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : John Wiley & Sons, 2013Description: x, 262 p.Subject(s): 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 criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809.3/872 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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.
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