Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions

1. Introduction
Vivien Miller, Helen Oakley

2. From the Locked Room to the Globe: Space in Crime Fiction
David Schmid

3. The Fact and Fiction of Darwinism: The Representation of Race, Ethnicity and Imperialism in the Sherlock Holmes Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Hilary A. Goldsmith

4. “You’re not so special, Mr. Ford”: The Quest for Criminal Celebrity
George Green, Lee Horsley

5. Hard-Boiled Screwball: Genre and Gender in the Crime Fiction of Janet Evanovich
Caroline Robinson

6. “A Wanted Man”: Transgender as Outlaw in Elizabeth Ruth’s Smoke
Susan E. Billingham

7. Dissecting the Darkness of Dexter
Helen Oakley

8. The Machine Gun in the Violin Case: Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets and the Gangster Musical Art Melodrama
Mark Nicholls

9. In the Private Eye: Private Space in the Noir Detective Movie
Bran Nicol

10. “Death of the Author”: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Police Procedurals
Charlotte Beyer

11. “Betty Short and I Go Back”: James Ellroy and the Metanarrative of the Black Dahlia Case
Steven Powell

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Film and Television Studies, Genre