The crime fiction handbook / Peter Messent.

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Blackwell literature handbooks
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Physical Description:x, 262 p.
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245 1 4 |a The crime fiction handbook  |h [electronic resource] /  |c Peter Messent. 
260 |a Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ;  |a Malden, Mass. :  |b John Wiley & Sons,  |c 2013. 
300 |a x, 262 p. 
440 0 |a Blackwell literature handbooks 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- 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 -- 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 Sjowall and Per Wahloo : 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. 
590 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
650 0 |a Detective and mystery stories  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Detective and mystery stories, American  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Detective and mystery stories, English  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Detective and mystery stories, Swedish  |x History and criticism. 
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