Crime and detective fiction / editor, Rebecca Martin, Pace University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Rebecca, 1953 April 17- editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories.

Crime in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 265 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume examines the richness of the field of crime writing and the many ways in which crime, its depiction, and its investigation cross narrative, national, and other boundaries.

Contents:

On crime and detective fiction

Critical contexts. From mean streets to imagined world: the development of detective fiction

Your sin will find you out: critical perceptions of mystery fiction

From "the case of the pressed flowers" to the serial killer's torture chamber: the use and function of crime fiction sub-genres in Steig Larsson's The girl with the dragon tattoo

A comparative assessment: The conjure-man dies, Blind man with a pistol, and Mumbo jumbo

Critical readings. Five hundred years of Chinese crime fiction

Assimilation, innovation, and dissemination: detective fiction in Japan and East Asia

Latin American crime fiction

Criminal welfare states, social consciousness, and critique in Scandinavian crime novels

From "hard-boiled detective" to "fallen man": the literary lineage and post-war emergence of film noir

The metaphysical detective story

Native American detective fiction

American crime fiction readers and the three percent problem.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2013).

ISBN:

9781299311510

1299311512

9781429838382

1429838388

OCLC:

832313971