Book
Contemporary American crime fiction
Record details
- ISBN: 0333674553 (cloth)
- ISBN: 0333684656 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: ix, 233 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Houndmills, [England] ; Palgrave, 2001.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Bibliography: p. 215-224. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The old guard in the mid-1990s : Muller, Grafton, and Paretsky -- The old guard continued : Kaminsky, Parker, and Block -- The personal and the regional : new forms of authenticity in female crime writing -- Three pictures from the institution : Forrest, Barr, and Hightower -- Los Angeles Police Department : Ellroy's and Connelly's police procedurals -- Private investigation in the 1990s -- The 'English tradition' in contemporary American crime fiction -- Historical mysteries -- In Waco's wake : Patricia Cornwell and Mary Willis Walker -- 'Other' detectives : the emergence of ethnic crime writing -- Black female crime writing -- The persistence of gender : the private investigators of S.J. Rozan. |
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| Subject: | Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Criminals in literature. Crime in literature. |
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| APLS | 813.0872 BER | 31291002647756 | STACKS | Available | - |
