Crime fiction / John Scaggs. by Scaggs, John, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Series editor's preface ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; A chronology of crime ; Mystery and detective fiction ; The hard-boiled mode ; The police procedural ; The crime thriller ; Historical crime fiction ; Glossary ; Suggestions for further reading ; Select bibliography ; Index.…”
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Anatomy Of Crime Fiction. ARTE France.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Crime Fiction…”
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Anatomy Of Crime Fiction. ARTE France.

Table of Contents: “…Landscape: Soul of Crime Fiction…”
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Anatomy Of Crime Fiction. ARTE France.

Table of Contents: “…Modern Technology and Crime Fiction…”
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Crafting crime fiction / Henry Sutton. by Sutton, Henry, 1963-

Crime fiction II : a comprehensive bibliography, 1749-1990 / Allen J. Hubin. by Hubin, Allen J.

“…Crime fiction two…”

Writing crime fiction / H.R.F. Keating. by Keating, H. R. F. (Henry Reymond Fitzwalter), 1926-2011

Philosophies of crime fiction / Josef Hoffmann ; translated from the Germany by Carolyn Kelly, Nadia Majid, Johanna Da Rocha Abreu. by Hoffmann, Josef

Table of Contents: “…Cover; About the Book; Quote; Title; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 Crime Fiction and Philosophy: Introduction and Overview; 2 Crime Fiction's Emergence from the Spirit of Western Philosophy; 3 The Rational World of Sherlock Holmes; 4 Gilbert Keith Chesterton's Christian Philosophy; 5 Hammett's Pragmatism; 6 Wittgenstein, PI, and the Mystery of the Missing Link; 7 Albert Camus and the Philosophy of Crime; 8 Jorge Luis Borges' Logic of Staging; 9 Death in Crime Fiction and Philosophy; 10 The Consolation of Crime Fiction is Stronger than the Consolation of Philosophy; Copyright.…”
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Crime fiction in german : Der Krimi / edited by Katharina Hall. by Hall, Katharina

Table of Contents: “…Map of German-speaking areas in EuropeCrime Fiction in German Chronology1. Crime Fiction in German: Key Concepts, Developments and Trends Katharina HallDer Krimi; The pioneers (1828-1933); Crime fiction under National Socialism(1933-45); Post-war crime narratives (1945-59) and East German crime fiction(1949-70); The West German Soziokrimi (1960-) and further East German crimefiction (1971-89); Turkish-German crime fiction and the Frauenkrimi (1980-);Historical crime fiction, regional crime fiction and the rise of the Afrika-Krimi(1989-); Crime fiction of the new millennium and the lacuna of Jewish-Germancrime fiction2. …”
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Scandinavian crime fiction / edited by Andrew Nestingen and Paula Arvas.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Contemporary Scandinavian Crime Fiction; Dirty Harry in the Swedish Welfare State; The Well-Adjusted Cops of the New Millennium: Neo-RomanticTendencies in the Swedish Police Procedural; Meaningless Icelanders: Icelandic Crime Fiction and Nationality; Digging into the Secrets of the Past: Rewriting History in the ModernScandinavian Police Procedural; The Place of Pessimism in Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander Series; Gender and Geography in Contemporary Scandinavian TelevisionCrime Fiction.…”
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The Crime Fiction Handbook. by Messent, Peter

Table of Contents: “…THE CRIME FICTION HANDBOOK -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introductory Note -- Part 1: Introduction -- Part 2: 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 Narratives -- Vision, Supervision, and the City -- Crime and the Body -- Gender Matters -- Representations of Race -- Part 3: Some KeyWorks in Crime Fiction -- Edgar Allan Poe: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) -- Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four (1890)…”
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Iberian Crime Fiction / edited by Nancy Vosburg.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Iberian Crime Fiction; Crime Fiction since the Spanish Civil War; In Search of a New Realism: Manuel Vázquez Montalbánand the Spanish Novela Negra; Detecting Difference/Constructing Community in Basque, Catalan and Galician Crime Fiction; Spanish Women's Crime Fiction, 1980s-2000s: Subvertingthe Conventions of Genre and Gender; Spanish Crime Fiction: 2001 and Beyond; Five Cases from 130 Years of Portuguese Detective Fiction,1870s-2000s; Index.…”
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Crime fiction in the city : capital crimes / edited by Lucy Andrew and Catherine Phelps.

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking Ian Rankin's Edinburgh; Corralling Crime in Cardiff's Tiger Bay; Crimes and Contradictions: the Fictional City of Dublin; From National Authority to Urban Underbelly: Negotiations of Power in Stockholm Crime Fiction; Streets and Squares, Quartiers and Arrondissements: Paris Crime Scenesand the Poetics of Contestation in the Novels of Jean-François Vilar; The Mysteries of the Vatican: from Nineteenth-century Anti-clerical Propaganda to Dan Brown's Religious Thrillers.…”
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Swedish crime fiction : novel, film, television / Steven Peacock. by Peacock, Steven, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…SWEDISH CRIME FICTION: NOVEL, FILM, TELEVISION; Half Title Page; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: A POST-MILLENNIUM PHENOMENON; 1. …”
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Italian crime fiction / edited by Giuliana Pieri.

Table of Contents: “…Milano nera: Representing and Imagining Milan in Italian Noir and Crime Fiction /…”
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Serial Crime Fiction : Dying for More / Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda, Barbara Pezzotti.

Table of Contents: “…The Myth of the Gentleman Burglar: Models of Serialization and Temporality in Early Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction; Federico Pagello4.…”
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Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction by Plain, Gill

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The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction by Gelder, Ken

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Title; Contents; Colonial Australian Crime Fiction; Barrington (1859); Tales of Adventure by a Log-Fire (1859); The Dead Witness, or, The Bush Waterhole (1866); The Major's Case (1895); Tale of a Skull (1867); In Australian Wilds (1870); The Trooper's Story of the Bank Robbery (1872); The Premier's Secret (1887); Dr. …”
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Twentieth-century crime fiction / Lee Horsley. by Horsley, Lee, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Classic detective fiction -- Hard-boiled detective fiction -- Transgression and pathology -- Crime fiction as socio-political critique -- Black appropriations -- Regendering the genre.…”

Deviance in contemporary crime fiction / Christina Gregoriou. by Gregoriou, Christiana, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Narratology and Deviance -- Aims, material and method -- Narratology and deviance -- The structure of narratives -- Crime fiction as genre and as popular literature -- Outline of remaining contents -- Contemporary Crime Fiction: Constraints and Development -- Introduction -- Crime fiction: origins and development -- Rules, regularities and constraints -- Defining the crime fiction genre -- Rules and constraints -- Formulaic regularities -- What sort of an attraction does crime literature hold for its readers? …”
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