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Book SynopsisTrade Review“With verve and energy, Michelle Robinson argues that the work of detection in fiction predates the appearance of the detective per se, and demonstrates that genres are fluid patchworks under constant repair and erasure even as they become ever more stable and predictable contracts between authors and readers. She shows how the modes of narration essential to elaborating crime plots—usually involving money and murder—are intimately tied to affective relations across classes, races and time, and the means by which they are expressed, involve, even commit, hidden violence. It is the work of narration to enlist readers in the narrators’ process of unraveling these crimes at the heart of family and nation.”—Paula Rabinowitz, author of
American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
