TY  - BOOK
AU  - Messent,Peter B.
TI  - The crime fiction handbook
T2  - Blackwell literature handbooks
SN  - 9780470657034
AV  - PN3448.D4 M435 2013
U1  - 809.3872 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, UK, Malden, MA
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, English
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, Swedish
N1  - 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
ER  -