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Serial Crime Fiction

Dying for More

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Jean Anderson

    1. Victorian University of Wellington, New Zealand

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  2. Carolina Miranda

    1. Victorian University of Wellington, New Zealand

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  3. Barbara Pezzotti

    1. Victorian University of Wellington, New Zealand

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Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda, Barbara Pezzotti
      Pages 1-7

  3. The Sum of its Parts: What Makes a Series?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Stephen Burroughs, Serial Offender: Formula and Fraud in Early US Crime Literature

      • Jon Blandford
      Pages 11-20

    3. The Myth of the Gentleman Burglar: Models of Serialization and Temporality in Early Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction

      • Federico Pagello
      Pages 21-30

    4. More than the Sum of its Parts: Borges, Bioy Casares and the Phenomenon of the Séptimo Círculo Collection

      • Carolina Miranda
      Pages 31-40

    5. Serializing Sullivan: Vian/Sullivan, the Série noire and the effet de collection

      • Clara Sitbon, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan, Alistair Rolls
      Pages 41-51

    6. Armed and Dangerous: Le Poulpe and the Formalization of French Noir

      • Pim Higginson
      Pages 52-62

    7. Acts of Violence: The World War II Veteran Private-Eye Movie as an Ideological Crime Series

      • Nick Heffernan
      Pages 63-73

    8. The Structure of the Whole: James Ellroy’s LA Quartet Series

      • Steven Powell
      Pages 74-83

  4. As Time Goes By: Progressing the Series

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series

      • Brittain Bright
      Pages 87-98

    3. Series Fiction and the Challenge of Ideology: The Feminism of Sara Paretsky

      • Sabine Vanacker
      Pages 99-110

    4. From Conflicted Mother to Lone Avenger: Transformations of the Woman Journalist Detective in Liza Marklund’s Crime Series

      • Kerstin Bergman
      Pages 111-121

    5. It’s All One Book, It’s All One World: George Pelecanos’s Washington DC

      • Eduardo Obradó
      Pages 122-132

    6. Serializing Evil: David Peace and the Formulae of Crime Fiction

      • Nicoletta Vallorani
      Pages 133-143

    7. The Flavour of the Street: The Factory Series by Derek Raymond

      • Anna Pasolini
      Pages 144-154

    8. Andrea Camilleri’s Imaginary Vigàta: Between Formula and Innovation

      • Barbara Pezzotti
      Pages 155-163

  5. Transposition, Imitation, Innovation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Sherlock Holmes in Hollywood: Film Series, Genre and Masculinities

      • Maysaa Jaber
      Pages 167-176
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Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers, Paretsky, Ellroy, Marklund, Camilleri, Borges, across print, film and television.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Victorian University of Wellington, New Zealand

    Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda, Barbara Pezzotti

About the editors

Jean Anderson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Lucy Andrew, Cardiff University, UK Carolyn Beasley, Swinburne University of Technology, in Victoria Kerstin Bergman, Lund University, Sweden Jon Blandford, Bellarmine University, USA Donna Lee Brien, Central Queensland University, Australia Brittain Bright, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Rachel Franks, The University of Newcastle, Australia Nick Heffernan, University of Nottingham, UK Pim Higginson, Bryn Mawr College, USA Maysaa Jaber, University of Baghdad, Iraq Carolina Miranda, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand Taryn Norman, University of Tennessee, USA Eduardo Obradó, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Federico Pagello, Queen's University Belfast, UK Anna Pasolini, University of Milan, Italy Barbara Pezzotti, Australasian Centre for Italian Studies, Australia Steven Powell, Independent Scholar, UK Alistair Rolls, University of Newcastle, Australia Clara Sitbon, University of Newcastle, Australia Nicoletta Vallorani, University of Milan, Italy Sabine Vanacker, University of Hull, UK Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan, University of Newcastle, Australia

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