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Serial Crime Fiction

Dying for More

  • Jean Anderson
  • Carolina Miranda
  • Barbara Pezzotti
Book

Part of the Crime Files Series book series (CF)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda, Barbara Pezzotti
      Pages 1-7

  3. The Sum of its Parts: What Makes a Series?

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 9-9
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    2. Stephen Burroughs, Serial Offender: Formula and Fraud in Early US Crime Literature
      Jon Blandford
      Pages 11-20
    3. The Myth of the Gentleman Burglar: Models of Serialization and Temporality in Early Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction
      Federico Pagello
      Pages 21-30
    4. More than the Sum of its Parts: Borges, Bioy Casares and the Phenomenon of the Séptimo Círculo Collection
      Carolina Miranda
      Pages 31-40
    5. Serializing Sullivan: Vian/Sullivan, the Série noire and the effet de collection
      Clara Sitbon, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan, Alistair Rolls
      Pages 41-51
    6. Armed and Dangerous: Le Poulpe and the Formalization of French Noir
      Pim Higginson
      Pages 52-62
    7. Acts of Violence: The World War II Veteran Private-Eye Movie as an Ideological Crime Series
      Nick Heffernan
      Pages 63-73
    8. The Structure of the Whole: James Ellroy’s LA Quartet Series
      Steven Powell
      Pages 74-83

  4. As Time Goes By: Progressing the Series

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 85-85
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    2. The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series
      Brittain Bright
      Pages 87-98
    3. Series Fiction and the Challenge of Ideology: The Feminism of Sara Paretsky
      Sabine Vanacker
      Pages 99-110
    4. From Conflicted Mother to Lone Avenger: Transformations of the Woman Journalist Detective in Liza Marklund’s Crime Series
      Kerstin Bergman
      Pages 111-121
    5. It’s All One Book, It’s All One World: George Pelecanos’s Washington DC
      Eduardo Obradó
      Pages 122-132
    6. Serializing Evil: David Peace and the Formulae of Crime Fiction
      Nicoletta Vallorani
      Pages 133-143
    7. The Flavour of the Street: The Factory Series by Derek Raymond
      Anna Pasolini
      Pages 144-154
    8. Andrea Camilleri’s Imaginary Vigàta: Between Formula and Innovation
      Barbara Pezzotti
      Pages 155-163

  5. Transposition, Imitation, Innovation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 165-165
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    2. Sherlock Holmes in Hollywood: Film Series, Genre and Masculinities
      Maysaa Jaber
      Pages 167-176
    3. Murder, Mayhem and Clever Branding: The Stunning Success of J.B. Fletcher
      Rachel Franks, Donna Lee Brien
      Pages 177-187
    4. From Flâneur to Traceur?: Léo Malet and Cara Black Construct the PI’s Paris
      Jean Anderson
      Pages 188-196
    5. The City Lives in Me: Connectivity and Embeddedness in Australia’s Peter Temple and Shane Maloney
      Carolyn Beasley
      Pages 197-207
    6. ‘She’s pretty hardboiled, huh?’: Rewriting the Classic Detective in Veronica Mars
      Taryn Norman
      Pages 208-218
    7. ‘Exspecta Inexspectata’: The Rise of the Supernatural in Hybrid Detective Series for Young Readers
      Lucy Andrew
      Pages 219-230
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 231-254
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About this book

Introduction

Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers, Paretsky, Ellroy, Marklund, Camilleri, Borges, across print, film and television.

Keywords

Crime Files Crime Fiction Serial Fiction Australia feminism fiction film French genre Hollywood marketing quartet television time transformation

Editors and affiliations

  • Jean Anderson
    • 1
  • Carolina Miranda
    • 1
  • Barbara Pezzotti
    • 1
  1. 1.Victorian University of WellingtonNew Zealand

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