Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / V. Miller & H. Oakley -- From the Locked Room to the Globe: Space in Crime Fiction / D. Schmid -- The Fact and Fiction of Darwinism: The Representation of Race, Ethnicity and Imperialism in the Sherlock Holmes Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / H.A. Goldsmith -- 'You're not so special, Mr. Ford': the Quest for Criminal Celebrity / G. Green & L. Horsley -- Hard-Boiled Screwball: Genre and Gender in the Crime Fiction of Janet Evanovich / C. Robinson -- 'A Wanted Man': Transgender as Outlaw in Elizabeth Ruth's Smoke / S.E. Billingham -- Dissecting the Darkness of Dexter / H. Oakley -- The Machine Gun in the Violin Case: Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets and the Gangster Musical Art Melodrama / M. Nicholls -- In the Private Eye: Private Space in the Noir Detective Movie / B. Nicol -- 'Death of the Author': Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's police procedurals / C. Beyer -- 'Betty Short and I Go Back': James Ellroy and the Metanarrative of the Black Dahlia Case / S. Powell.
Summary:
"A collection of ten original essays forging new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing British, Swedish, American and Canadian contexts. The authors explore representations of race, gender, sexuality and memory, and challenge traditional categorizations of academic and professional crime writing"-- Provided by publisher.
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