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This book is not about the ‘who’ committed the crime, but about ‘how’ criminality is presented in a criminal narrative. It analyzes the offender intention, the ‘goings on’ that happened prior to, during and following the act.
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Dutta-Flanders, R. (2017). Introduction. In: The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47028-7_1
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