TY - BOOK AU - Messent,Peter B. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The crime fiction handbook AV - PN3448.D4 M435 2013eb U1 - 809.3/872 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., Malden, Mass. PB - John Wiley & Sons 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 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10657938 ER -