Crime scenes : modern crime fiction in an international context. Gdansk transatlantic studies in British and North American culture ; Vol. 6.

Ein tadelloses Exemplar. - Contents -- Introduction 9 -- PART I -- GENRES 13 -- Thomas Anessi -- Literary Codes of Conduct in PRL Crime Fiction: Barariczak, -- Joe Alex and the Powiesc Milicyjna 15 -- Nina Hoist -- "Way too meta": Readers, Writers and Transmedia in Castle 27 -- Nina Muzdeka -- A Pothead Detective Challenging the Genre: Thomas Pynchon's -- Inherent Vice 43 -- Elzbieta Perkowska-Gawlik -- The Quest for Identity in Academic Mystery Fiction 53 -- Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish -- Tartan Noir: Crime, Scotland and Genre in Ian Rankin's Rebus Novels 65 -- PART II -- AUTHORS AND TEXTS 81 -- Stephen Butler -- Banville, Simenon, Stark - An Existential Menage a Trois 83 -- Wolfgang Gortschacher -- Constructions of Identity and Intertextuality in Martha Grimes's -- The Black Cat 97 -- Ayfegul Kesirli Unur -- Cingoz Recai at Work: A Study on Early Turkish Crime Fiction on Film 111 -- Arkadiusz Misztal -- LSD Investigations: The End of Groovy Times and California Noir -- in Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon 123 -- Monika Rajtak -- Investigating Evil: Crime Fiction Remodelled in When We Were Orphans -- by Kazuo Ishiguro 133 -- Monika Szuba -- Bloody Typical: Genre, Intertextuality, and the Gaze -- in The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh 149 -- Jorgen Veisland -- Whose Letter? Possession, Position and Detection in Edgar Allan Poe's -- "The Purloined Letter" 161 -- Jadwiga Wggrodzka -- The Detective as Reader: Narration and Interpretation -- in Arthur Conan Doyle's Detective Stories 173 -- Marta Aleksandrowicz-Wojtyna -- Crime Fiction in South Africa? Nadine Gordimer's Rendition of Crime -- in "Country Lovers" and "Town Lovers" 187 -- Bernd-Peter Lange -- South Asian Sleuths: Colonial, Postcolonial, Cosmopolitan 199 -- PART III -- TOPICS 211 -- Dorota Babilas -- Her Majesty's Own Murderer? Queen Victoria and Jack the Ripper -- in Popular Fiction 213 -- Rachel Franks -- Gender and Genre: Changes in "Women's Work" in Australian -- Crime Fiction 229 -- Marie Hologa -- "Snort for Caledonia" - Drugs, Masculinity and National Identity in -- Contemporary Scottish Detective Fiction 243 -- Miriam Loth -- ".the abyss gazes also into you" - Guilt and Innocence in British -- Golden Age Detective Fiction and Contemporary Crime Novels 255 ISBN 9783631641545