The crime fiction handbook
By: Peter Messent
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Wiley-Interscience; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780470657034; 9780470657041
Subjects: American Detective and mystery stories; English Detective and mystery stories; Swedish Detective and mystery stories; Detective and mystery stories; History and criticism
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The politics, main forms, and key concerns of crime fiction. The politics of crime fiction; The types of crime fiction;  Classical detective fiction; Hard-boiled detective fiction; The police novel; Transgressor fictions; Vision, supervision, and the city; Crime and the body; Gender matters; Representations of race; title: Discussions of individual texts.  Edgar Allan Poe: "The murders in the Rue Morgue"; Arthur Conan Doyle : The sign of four; Agatha Christie : The murder of Roger Aykroyd; Dashiell Hammett : The Maltese falcon; Raymond Chandler : The big sleep; James M. Cain : Double indemnity; Patricia Highsmith : The talented Mr. Ripley;  Chester Himes : Cotton comes to Harlem; Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö : The laughing policeman; James Ellroy : The black dahlia; Thomas Harris : The silence of the lambs; Patricia Cornwell : Unnatural exposure; Ian Rankin : The naming of the dead; Stieg Larsson : The girl with the dragon tattoo.