Iberian Crime Fiction is the first volume in English to provide an extensive overview of crime fiction in Spain and Portugal. While the origins of peninsular crime fiction are traced in Nancy Vosburg's introductory chapter to the volume, the essays focus on specific topics that provide readers with a sense of the development of the genre in the second half of the 20th-century and current trends in the 21st-century. Patty Hart, whose The Spanish Sleuth...

This collection of articles studies the development of crime fiction in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden since the 1960s, offering the first English-language study of this widely read and influential form. Since the first Martin-Beck novel of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö appeared in 1965, the socially-critical crime novel has figured prominently in Scandinavian culture, and found hundreds of millions of readers outside Scandinavia. But...

Collected here are 20 tales of darkest crime and criminals, by some of the foremost mystery writers of the pulp era. Included are:

THE ART OF MURDER, by Norman A. Daniels
SEX MURDER IN CAMERON, by Michael Fessier
HOT-MOTOR HOMICIDE, by Norman Ober
"GIVE ME A BREAK," by Norman Struber
EAR-WITNESS, by Maurice Beam
THE GENTLEST OF THE BROTHERS, by David Alexander
AUTHOR'S ADVENTURE, by Upton Sinclair
ONE WAY BRIDGE, by

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Crime Fiction in German is the first volume in English to offer a comprehensive overview of German-language crime fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to its vibrant growth in the new millennium. As well as introducing readers to crime fiction from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the former East Germany, the volume expands the notion of a German crime-writing tradition by investigating Nazi crime fiction, Jewish-German crime...

A Trial. A Crime. No Hope To Live. Being old is a crime. When Eliana Johnson goes on trial for being old, she reflects on a life of hate, corruption and suffering in this vivid, imaginative and shocking crime story about love, life and justice.

Now with a new foreword from veteran cop and private detective, Scott Thrall, who says: "I have been in law enforcement for over 32 years. During my career I have investigated crimes and worked with victims both as a patrol officer and detective. I found the insights into investigation, research and police procedure shared in 'The Easy Way to Write Crime Fiction That Sells' to be spot on." Now you can easily imagine, plan, and then write your own...

Crime has always been around, and it will continue far into the future. Whether it's priceless artifacts disappearing from a sealed container, trading useless space rocks to aliens in exchange for something far more valuable, a genetically-modified, not-quite-human-anymore celebrity who dies under mysterious circumstances, ghosts achieving the perfect revenge, or robots finding the equivalent of digital drugs, the possibilities are endless for committing-and...

Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue; centered on the power of sympathy between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between...

The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada's most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka. Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The book looks critically...

Crime Fiction contains a literary analysis of three culturally significant stories - The Big Sleep, Anil's Ghost and The Real Inspector Hound. Each analysis deals with Tzvetan Todorov theory about the dual narrative structure of crime fiction stories, the context and outstanding features as distinct examples of the evolving and dynamic crime fiction genre. The book also contains an introduction to genre theory, background knowledge on the evolution...