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The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction
2020 •
Stewart King, Jesper Gulddal, Janice Allan
The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as groundbreaking mappings of emerging themes and trends. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I , Approaches , rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II , Devices , examines the textual characteristics of the genre. Part III , Interfaces , investigates the complex ways in which crime fiction engages with the defining issues of its context – from policing and forensic science through war, migration and narcotics to digital media and the environment. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars of crime fi ction.
The Long Wait: Timely Secrets of the Contemporary Detective Novel
Theodore Martin
POLICE-DETECTIVE RELATIONSHIP IN THE DETECTIVE STORIES OF SARADINDU BANDYOPADHYAY— A POSTCOLONIAL APPROACH
Sunit Barui
As the generic nomenclature suggests, detection of the criminal constitutes the chief narrative interest in a detective fiction. In Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's detective stories that palpably bear the impress of the classical detective fiction, crime and criminal are treated as an infection in the society that needs the healing touch of the private detective, Byomkesh Bakshi, for restoration of status quo. Prevention and investigation of crime and protection of the innocent are the official assignment of a law enforcing authority. The private investigator and an investigating police officer operate in the same direction, though their methodology, commitment and competency level differ significantly, prompting thereby a mutuality of clash and coalescence in their relationship. The present paper invokes the spirit of postcolonial criticism that encourages ambivalent mechanism in any decolonization agenda, to study the political import of police-private detective interaction in select detective stories of Saradindu Bandyopadhyay.
The Crossroads of Crime Writing: Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces, 2024
The Crossroads of Crime Writing: Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces
Rebecca Martin
This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to collective anxieties. The chapters within utilize theories of cultural memory and/or deep mapping in order to explore the interplay of the literary, historical, social, and cultural in various modes of crime writing through the examination of unseen structures and uncertain spaces and provide new insights into the works of iconic authors, such as Agatha Christie, and iconic fictional figures, such as Sherlock Holmes, as well as into underexplored subjects, such as Ukrainian detective fiction of the Soviet period and crime writing by a Bengali police detective at the turn of the twentieth century. This volume features authors and subjects that are global in scope with original, innovative work on crime writing from the 1890s to as recent as 2017. The breadth of coverage—of both time and place—is an indicator of a text in which seasoned readers, advanced students, and academics will find specialized explorations of individual works and authors, while the critical and theoretical approaches and the topical coherence of the collection offer to a wide audience a scholarly overview of crime writing, as a still-growing area of popular interest and a still-evolving field of intellectual exploration.
Crime Uncovered: the private investigator. ISBN: 178-3-20523-7
(Alistair Rolls and Rachel Franks, Eds) Crime Uncovered: the private investigator
2016 •
Rachel Franks
The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade— the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets—to Agatha Christie’s Captain Hastings—the genteel companion in greener surrounds—the P. I. has taken on any number of guises. In Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator, editors Alistair Rolls and Rachel Franks dive deep into crime literature and culture, challenging many of the assumptions we make about the hardy P. I. Assembling a cast of notable crime fiction experts, including Stephen Knight and Carolyn Beasley, the book covers characters from the whole world of international noir—Giorgio Scerbanenco’s Duca Lambert, Léo Malet’s Nestor Burma, and many more. Including essays on the genealogy and emergence of the protagonist in nineteenth-century fiction; interviews with crime writers Leigh Redhead, Nick Quantrill, and Fernando Lalana; and analyses of the transatlantic exchanges that helped to develop public perception of a literary icon, Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator will redefine what we think we know about the figure of the P. I. Rolls and Franks have engaged here the tension between the popular and scholarly that is inherent in any critical examination of a literary type, along the way unraveling the mystery of the alluring, enigmatic private investigator. Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator will be a handy companion for any crime fiction fan.
The effects of a non-traditional detective protagonist in South African crime fiction
Gabriella Bellairs-Lombard
There are a multitude of characteristics that can be attributed to the literary detection genre, but one element that is most commonly acknowledged is the existence of a detective protagonist whose detective work is shaped and detailed by literary techniques that are insightful and engaging to the reader. However, it is evident that the portrayal of Eberard Februarie and Peter Jacobs is markedly different to that of the more traditional detective figures. This essay will aim to problematize the definition of a traditional detective protagonist, linking it to the South African context in which these novels are based. I will argue that Februarie and Jacobs are instead anti-detectives based on the criteria belonging to the definition of a traditional detective protagonist that they fail to fulfill. Additionally, I will argue that the traditional detective figure perhaps does not exist in the South African context due to unique socio-political and historical factors.
Modernism/modernity
Mayhem and Murder: Narrative and Moral Problems in the Detective Story (review)
2001 •
Morag Shiach
Serial Crime Fiction
2015 •
Carolina Miranda
Quadrant, 62, 3, 82-90
The murky depths of crime fiction
2018 •
Michael Wilding
A survey of crime fiction, Australian and English and American; the 3rf Fryer Library annual lecture
The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, ed. Rosemary Herbert
Selected motifs in detective fiction: "Christmas Crime"; "Expeditions"; "Innocence"; "Murderless Mystery"; "Plagiarism"; "Transportation, Modes of"; and "Travel Milieu." [ Co-authored with Peter V. Cenci ]
1999 •
George L Scheper
Overviews of select themes in crime and mystery writing, co-authored with Peter V. Cenci. "Christmas Crime"; "Expeditions"; "Innocence"; "Murderless Mystery"; "Plagiarism"; "Transportation Modes"; and "Travel Milieu."
