Crime and detective fiction
By: editor, Rebecca Martin, Pace University
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press, Grey House Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ipswich, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781429838221
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; History and criticism; Crime in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On crime and detective fiction; title: Critical contexts. From mean streets to imagined world: the development of detective fiction; title: Your sin will find you out: critical perceptions of mystery fiction; title: 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; title: A comparative assessment: The conjure-man dies, Blind man with a pistol, and Mumbo jumbo; title: Critical readings. Five hundred years of Chinese crime fiction; title: Assimilation, innovation, and dissemination: detective fiction in Japan and East Asia; title: Latin American crime fiction; title: Criminal welfare states, social consciousness, and critique in Scandinavian crime novels; title: From "hard-boiled detective" to "fallen man": the literary lineage and post-war emergence of film noir; title: The metaphysical detective story; title: Native American detective fiction; title: American crime fiction readers and the three percent problem.