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Country House Mystery
Crime Fiction
Crime Thriller
detective
Detective Fiction
detective fiction subgenres
Detective Story
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gender representation literature
Genius Detective
genre conventions analysis
Golden Age
Golden Age Detective
Golden Age Fiction
hardboiled
historical
Historical Crime Fiction
Holmes Story
introductory literary theory
locked
Locked Room Mystery
Lord Peter Wimsey
marie
Metaphysical Detective Story
mysterious
mystery
Ngaio Marsh
noir narrative techniques
Noir Thriller
Police Force
Police Procedural
police procedural studies
Revenge Tragedies
Richard III
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Rue Morgue
social context in crime fiction
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Thou Art The Man
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction
Unsuitable Job For A Woman
Product details
- ISBN 9780415318242
- Weight: 207g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jan 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs:
- presents a concise history of crime fiction - from biblical narratives to James Ellroy - broadening the genre to include revenge tragedy and the gothic novel
- explores the key sub-genres of crime fiction, such as 'Rational Criminal Investigation', The Hard-Boiled Mode', 'The Police Procedural' and 'Historical Crime Fiction'
- locates texts and their recurring themes and motifs in a wider social and historical context
- outlines the various critical concepts that are central to the study of crime fiction, including gender, narrative theory and film theory
- considers contemporary television series like C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation alongside the 'classic' whodunnits of Agatha Christie.
Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction and concludes with a look at future directions for the genre in the twentieth-first century.
John Scaggs is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland. His research interests include Modern Fiction, with a particular emphasis on crime fiction and revenge tragedy, the Gothic and Literary Theory.
