Criminal Proceedings: The Contemporary American Crime Novel

Criminal Proceedings
	Contents
	Notes on Contributors
	Introduction: From Private Eye to Police Procedural — The Logic of Contemporary Crime Fiction
		Notes
	1— Criminal Suits: Style and Surveillance, Strategy and Tactics in Elmore Leonard
		Suits
		Plotting and Contingency
		Undercover
		Overlooking
		The Paralegal
		Strategy and Tactics
		Notes
	2— Black Noir: Race and Urban Space in Walter Mosley's Detective Fiction
		Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Race
		Easy Rawlins, Race, and Urban Space
		Devil in a Blue Dress
		Walter Mosley's Black Noir
		Notes
	3— V.I. Warshawski, Kinsey Millhone and Kay Scarpetta: Creating a Feminist Detective Hero
		Introduction
		The Detective Hero
		The Search for Knowledge
		Notes
	4— The Lesbian Thriller: Transgressive Investigations
		Crime Detection — and Contradictions
		Gender and Sexuality
		The City Transformed
		Notes
	5— Policing the Margins: Barbara Wilson's Gaudí Afternoon and Troubles in Transylvania
		Notes
	6— Reading the Signs: Detection and Anthropology in the Work of Tony Hillerman
		Notes
	7— The Last Good Place: James Crumley, the West and the Detective Novel
		Retrospective
		The Great American West, the Family, Vietnam
		Notes
		Further Reading
	8— James Ellroy, Los Angeles and the Spectacular Crisis of Masculinity
		Notes
	9— Law Crimes: The Legal Fictions of John Grisham and Scott Turow
		Populism, Professionalism, Individualism: John Grisham
		Unjust Deserts: Scott Turow
		Notes
	10— Watching the Detectives: Body Images, Sexual Politics and Ideology in Contemporary Crime Film
		David Lynch, Intertextualities, Body Images
			The Silence of the Lambs
		Mapping the Male Body: The Die Hard Sequence
			Blade Runner
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Selected Bibliography
	Index
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