Description
Book SynopsisHilfer offers convincing evidence that the crime novel should be regarded as a genre distinct from the detective novel, whose conventions it subverts to develop conventions of its own.
Trade ReviewTony Hilfer's probing study of the genre of crime fiction is at least as thought provoking and intriguing as the novels under consideration.... Whether one's interest in crime fiction is scholarly or recreational, this study will provide tremendous insight into the psychosocial implications of this 'deviant genre.' * Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Crime Novel: Guilt and Menace
- 2. Deviant Impulses: Incest and Doubling
- 3. Ontological Insecurities: Time and Space in the American Crime Novel
- 4. Devil or Angel: Fatal Passion in the American Crime Novel
- 5. Pale Criminals and Murderees: The Problem of Justice in the English Crime Novel
- 6. Civilization and Its Discontents: Simenon, Millar, Highsmith, and Thompson
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
