Description

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International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new 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 to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the 20th century. Employing critical tools new to crime-fiction studies, the essays also gesture toward a future for genre scholarship.

About the Author

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Malcah Effron is a Lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication program at MIT. She has published diverse articles on detective fiction and is a peer reviewer for The Journal of Popular Culture. Additionally, she is one of the co-founders of the International Crime Studies Network. This is her first book.