The crime fiction handbook

Main Author: Messent, Peter B.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10657938
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300 |a x, 262 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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 Sjθowall and Per Wahlθoθo : 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. 
650 0 |a Detective and mystery stories  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Detective and mystery stories, English  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Detective and mystery stories, American  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Detective and mystery stories, Swedish  |x History and criticism. 
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