Reading texts from across the world, this book examines the depiction of 'the foreigner' in popular 20th and 21st century crime writing.
First published in 1987, this title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carr, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell a history of modern society, translating the political and cultural transformations…
International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's response…
Leonard Cassuto's cultural history of the hard-boiled crime genre recovers the fascinating link between tough guys and sensitive women
'The Sherlock Holmes Book' chronicles every case of the world's greatest detective and his assistant Dr Watson. The game is afoot and now you can discover every detail of Sherlock Holmes' world. From the first novel, 'A Study in Scarlet', through to the masterpiece that is 'The …