Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
From the Locked Room to the Globe: Space in Crime Fiction....Pages 7-23
The Fact and Fiction of Darwinism: The Representation of Race, Ethnicity and Imperialism in the Sherlock Holmes Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....Pages 24-39
“You’re not so special, Mr. Ford”: The Quest for Criminal Celebrity....Pages 40-58
Hard-Boiled Screwball: Genre and Gender in the Crime Fiction of Janet Evanovich....Pages 59-75
“A Wanted Man”: Transgender as Outlaw in Elizabeth Ruth’s Smoke....Pages 76-90
Dissecting the Darkness of Dexter....Pages 91-105
The Machine Gun in the Violin Case: Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets and the Gangster Musical Art Melodrama....Pages 106-120
In the Private Eye: Private Space in the Noir Detective Movie....Pages 121-140
“Death of the Author”: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Police Procedurals....Pages 141-159
“Betty Short and I Go Back”: James Ellroy and the Metanarrative of the Black Dahlia Case....Pages 160-176
Back Matter....Pages 177-180