Serial Crime Fiction: Dying for More

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Stephen Burroughs, Serial Offender: Formula and Fraud in Early US Crime Literature....Pages 11-20
The Myth of the Gentleman Burglar: Models of Serialization and Temporality in Early Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction....Pages 21-30
More than the Sum of its Parts: Borges, Bioy Casares and the Phenomenon of the Séptimo Círculo Collection....Pages 31-40
Serializing Sullivan: Vian/Sullivan, the Série noire and the effet de collection....Pages 41-51
Armed and Dangerous: Le Poulpe and the Formalization of French Noir....Pages 52-62
Acts of Violence: The World War II Veteran Private-Eye Movie as an Ideological Crime Series....Pages 63-73
The Structure of the Whole: James Ellroy’s LA Quartet Series....Pages 74-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series....Pages 87-98
Series Fiction and the Challenge of Ideology: The Feminism of Sara Paretsky....Pages 99-110
From Conflicted Mother to Lone Avenger: Transformations of the Woman Journalist Detective in Liza Marklund’s Crime Series....Pages 111-121
It’s All One Book, It’s All One World: George Pelecanos’s Washington DC....Pages 122-132
Serializing Evil: David Peace and the Formulae of Crime Fiction....Pages 133-143
The Flavour of the Street: The Factory Series by Derek Raymond....Pages 144-154
Andrea Camilleri’s Imaginary Vigàta: Between Formula and Innovation....Pages 155-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Sherlock Holmes in Hollywood: Film Series, Genre and Masculinities....Pages 167-176
Murder, Mayhem and Clever Branding: The Stunning Success of J.B. Fletcher....Pages 177-187
From Flâneur to Traceur?: Léo Malet and Cara Black Construct the PI’s Paris....Pages 188-196
The City Lives in Me: Connectivity and Embeddedness in Australia’s Peter Temple and Shane Maloney....Pages 197-207
‘She’s pretty hardboiled, huh?’: Rewriting the Classic Detective in Veronica Mars....Pages 208-218
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
‘Exspecta Inexspectata’: The Rise of the Supernatural in Hybrid Detective Series for Young Readers....Pages 219-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-254