The crime fiction handbook / Peter Messent.
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TextSeries: Blackwell literature handbooksPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013Description: x, 262 p. ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780470657034; 9780470657041Subject(s): Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism | Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism | Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism | Detective and mystery stories, Swedish -- History and criticismDDC classification: 809.3872 LOC classification: PN3448.D4 | M435 2013| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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NUST Law School (NLS) | NUST Law School (NLS) | 809.3872 MES (Browse shelf) | Available | NLS-3158 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-251) and index.
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 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.
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