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Death in a Cold Climate : A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction / by B. Forshaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forshaw, Barry.
- Series:
- Crime Files, 2947-8359
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Literature.
- Fiction.
- European Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- World Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- European Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- World Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 .
- 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 Nesb
- Iceland: Crime and Context
- Fringe Benefits: Icelandic Woes
- Finland: Crime and Context
- Death in Denmark
- Danish Uncertainties
- Film and TV Adaptations
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613381675
- 9781283381673
- 1283381672
- 9780230363502
- 0230363504
- OCLC:
- 769139344
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