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Death in a cold climate : a guide to Scandinavian crime fiction / Barry Forshaw.
Van Pelt Library PT7083.5.D48 F67 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forshaw, Barry.
- Series:
- Crime files series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, Scandinavian--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, Scandinavian.
- Scandinavian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Scandinavian fiction.
- Scandinavian fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Crime in literature.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 207 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Summary:
- "Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre; from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin Beck series, through Henning Mankell's Wallander, to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Crime and the Left
- The Cracks Appear: Henning Mankell
- Sweden: The Dream Darkens
- Sweden: Foreign Policy and Unreliable Narratives
- Last Orders: The Larsson Phenomenon
- The Fight Back: Anti-Larsson Writers
- Criminals and Criminologists
- Norway: Crime and Context
- Norway and Nesbø
- Iceland: Crime and Context
- Fringe Benefits: Icelandic Woes
- Finland: Crime and Context
- Death in Denmark
- Danish Uncertainties
- Film and TV Adaptations
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230361447
- 0230361447
- 9780230303690
- 0230303692
- OCLC:
- 769289548
- Online:
- Cover image
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