Messent, Peter B. <br/><br/>
The crime fiction handbook / 
Peter Messent. 
 - Chichester, West Sussex, UK ;  Malden, MA :  Wiley-Blackwell,  2013. 
 - x, 262 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Blackwell literature handbooks .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-251) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780470657034 9780470657041 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012008956 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.<br/>Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism.<br/>Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.<br/>Detective and mystery stories, Swedish--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3448.D4  / M435 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.3872  / MES