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Crime Files

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Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	100 American Crime Writers Crime Files Edited By Steven Powell Palgrave Macmillan From Edgar Allan Poe to James Ellroy, crime writers have provided some of the most popular, controversial, acclaimed and disturbing works in American...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Death in a Cold Climate A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction Crime Files Barry Forshaw Palgrave Macmillan Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis ofthe Scandinavian crime genre; from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Hollywood's Detectives Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-boiled Noir Crime Files Fran Mason Palgrave Macmillan The study of Hollywood detectives has often overlooked the B-Movie mystery series in favour of hard-boiled film. Hollywood's Detectives redresses this...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction The Locked Room Mystery Crime Files Michael Cook Palgrave Macmillan The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature Crime Files Emelyne Godfrey Palgrave Macmillan This book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction The Mothers of the Mystery Genre Crime Files Lucy Sussex Palgrave Macmillan This book is a study of the "mothers" of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	The Noir Thriller Crime Files Lee Horsley Palgrave Macmillan What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? Lee Horsley's updated study of the genre, now available...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	French And American Noir Dark Crossings Crime Files Alistair Rolls and Deborah Walker Palgrave Macmillan This new addition to the Crime Files series explores the complex relationship between ‘noir’ in France and in the U.S., including discussion of both film and...

Trade Paperback : $37.00 Buy	A Counter-History of Crime Fiction Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational Crime Files Maurizio Ascari Palgrave Macmillan Nominated for the Mystery Writers of America ‘Edgar Awards’! A Counter-History of Crime Fiction takes a new look at the evolution of crime fiction,...

Trade Paperback : $37.00 Buy	Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction Crime Files Christiana Gregoriou Palgrave Macmillan This book directly explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary american crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic.

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Agatha Christie Power and Illusion Crime Files Richard York Palgrave Macmillan This new edition to the Crime Files series considers how the cozy world of Agatha Christie is threatened by modernity and uncertainty: war, social mobility,...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Agatha Christie Investigating Femininity Crime Files Merja Makinen Palgrave Macmillan Far from being a conservative writer endorsing women's domestic role, Agatha Christie's book depicts women as adventurous, independent women who renegotiate...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction Crime Files Heather Worthington Palgrave Macmillan Detective fiction's real origins lurk in the popular press of the early nineteenth century, where the detective and the case were steadily developed. The...

Trade Paperback : $40.00 Buy	American Gangster Cinema From 'Little Caesar' to 'Pulp Fiction' Crime Files Fran Mason Palgrave Macmillan Much analysis of gangster movies has been based upon a study of the gangster as a malign figuration of the American Dream, originally set in the era of the...

Hardcover : $147.00 Buy	Contemporary American Crime Fiction Crime Files Hans Bertens and Theo D'haen Palgrave Macmillan This accessible, lively, and informative study gives a clear, comprehensive overview of recent trends in American crime fiction. Building on a discussion of...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Crime, Fear and the Law in True Crime Stories Crime Files Anita Biressi Palgrave Macmillan Anita Biressi examines the historical origins and development of true crime and its evolution into distinctive contemporary forms. Embracing a range of...

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	The Post-Colonial Detective Crime Files Ed Christian Palgrave Macmillan What happens to detective fiction when the detective is "post-colonial," a marginalized native or settler in a country recovering from colonialism? This...

Hardcover : $98.00 Buy	From Agatha Christie To Ruth Rendell British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction Crime Files Susan Rowland Palgrave Macmillan From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers,...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	The American Thriller Generic Innovation and Social Change in the 1970s Crime Files Paul Cobley Palgrave Macmillan What is the American Thriller? Has it developed over time? What was it like in the past? This is a book about thrillers and gaining knowledge of what American...

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