The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction

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Summary

Examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.

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Notes on contributors
Introduction
Early crime writing
Poe and the origins of detective fiction
Women writers before 1960
The hard-boiled novel
The American Roman Noir
Teenage detectives and teenage delinquents
The American spy novel
Police procedurals in literature and on television
Mafia stories and the US gangster
True crime
Race and American crime fiction
Feminist crime fiction
Crime and post-modern fiction
American crime fiction: a chronology
Guide to reading
Index
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