Crime and detective fiction / 
editor, Rebecca Martin, Pace University. 
 - xxviii, 265 pages cm. 
 - Critical insights .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>On crime and detective fiction -- Critical contexts. From mean streets to imagined world: the development of detective fiction -- Your sin will find you out: critical perceptions of mystery fiction -- From "the case of the pressed flowers" to the serial killer's torture chamber: the use and function of crime fiction sub-genres in Steig Larsson's The girl with the dragon tattoo -- A comparative assessment: The conjure-man dies, Blind man with a pistol, and Mumbo jumbo -- Critical readings. Five hundred years of Chinese crime fiction -- Assimilation, innovation, and dissemination: detective fiction in Japan and East Asia -- Latin American crime fiction -- Criminal welfare states, social consciousness, and critique in Scandinavian crime novels -- From "hard-boiled detective" to "fallen man": the literary lineage and post-war emergence of film noir -- The metaphysical detective story -- Native American detective fiction -- American crime fiction readers and the three percent problem. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781429838221 (hardcover) 1429838221 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012049049 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.<br/>Crime in literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 3448 .D4  / C73 2013