Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: The satisfactions of murder
- 2 Early American crime writing
- 3 Poe and the origins of detective fiction
- 4 Women writers before 1960
- 5 The hard-boiled novel
- 6 The American roman noir
- 7 Teenage detectives and teenage delinquents
- 8 American spy fiction
- 9 The police procedural in literature and on television
- 10 Mafia stories and the American gangster
- 11 True crime
- 12 Race and American crime fiction
- 13 Feminist crime fiction
- 14 Crime in postmodernist fiction
- Guide to reading
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: The satisfactions of murder
- 2 Early American crime writing
- 3 Poe and the origins of detective fiction
- 4 Women writers before 1960
- 5 The hard-boiled novel
- 6 The American roman noir
- 7 Teenage detectives and teenage delinquents
- 8 American spy fiction
- 9 The police procedural in literature and on television
- 10 Mafia stories and the American gangster
- 11 True crime
- 12 Race and American crime fiction
- 13 Feminist crime fiction
- 14 Crime in postmodernist fiction
- Guide to reading
- Index
Summary
![Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'](https://static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Abook%3A9780511762840/resource/name/firstPage-9780511762840ind_p183-190_CBO.jpg)
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction , pp. 183 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010