Crime fiction and film in the Sunshine State
Subtitle: Florida noir
By: edited by Steve Glassman and Maurice J. O'Sullivan.
Contributors: Glassman, Steve.; O'Sullivan, Maurice, 1944-
Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Press; Popular Press 1
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Bowling Green
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.; Crime in literature.; American fiction -- Florida -- History and criticism.; Detective and mystery films -- United States -- History and criticism.; Detective and mystery television programs -- United States.; Noir fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Florida -- In literature.
Description: From Elmore Leonard's professional hoods to Carl Hiaasen's amateur grotesques, Florida's mystery writers have created a criminal universe that centers on Miami. For the first time, a group of literary critics examines how the center of crime shifted from the City of Angels to the home of Miami Vice and the Magic Kingdom and why the country's southernmost state has developed such a concentration of talented mystery writers.

In addition to essays on the origins of the detective novel in Florida and its contemporary masters, the book includes a chapter on Florida film noir from Key Largo to Body Heat and the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the state.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.