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Watching the Detectives

Essays on Crime Fiction

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Ian A. Bell

    1. The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

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  2. Graham Daldry

    1. McCormick Publicis (Advertising), Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Irony and Justice in Patricia Highsmith

    • Ian A. Bell
    Pages 1-17

  3. ‘This Shitty Urban Machine Humanised’: The Urban Crime Novel and the Novels of William McIlvanney

    • Simon Dentith
    Pages 18-36

  4. The Voices of George V. Higgins

    • Graham Daldry
    Pages 37-47

  5. Investigating Women: The Female Sleuth after Feminism

    • Lyn Pykett
    Pages 48-67

  6. The Phantom at the Limits of Criminology

    • Richard W. Ireland
    Pages 68-83

  7. Real Detectives and Fictional Criminals

    • John Simons
    Pages 84-96

  8. Unravelling a Web: Writer versus Reader in Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Detection

    • Ffrangcon C. Lewis
    Pages 97-116

  9. Chandler’s Cannibalism

    • Maldwyn Mills
    Pages 117-133

  10. Home is Where the Hearth Is: The Englishness of Agatha Christie’s Marple Novels

    • Anna-Marie Taylor
    Pages 134-151

  11. ‘Loving and Lying’: Multiple Identity in John le Carré’s A Perfect Spy

    • Tony Barley
    Pages 152-171

  12. Radical Thrillers

    • Stephen Knight
    Pages 172-187

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 189-193
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About this book

In this collection of essays, a number of critics offer commentary on the crime fiction genre, exploring the kinds of pleasure it offers. Looking under the attractive surface of these books, the contributors discover a number of complex issues.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

    Ian A. Bell

  • McCormick Publicis (Advertising), Manchester, UK

    Graham Daldry

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