Serial Crime Fiction

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Stephen Burroughs, Serial Offender: Formula and Fraud in Early US Crime Literature

Chapter 3 The Myth of the Gentleman Burglar: Models of Serialization and Temporality in Early Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction

Chapter 4 More than the Sum of its Parts: Borges, Bioy Casares and the Phenomenon of the Séptimo Círculo Collection

Chapter 5 Serializing Sullivan: Vian/Sullivan, the Série noire and the effet de collection

Chapter 6 Armed and Dangerous: Le Poulpe and the Formalization of French Noir

Chapter 7 Acts of Violence: The World War II Veteran Private-Eye Movie as an Ideological Crime Series

Chapter 8 The Structure of the Whole: James Ellroy’s LA Quartet Series

Chapter 9 The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series

Chapter 10 Series Fiction and the Challenge of Ideology: The Feminism of Sara Paretsky

Chapter 11 From Conflicted Mother to Lone Avenger: Transformations of the Woman Journalist Detective in Liza Marklund’s Crime Series

Chapter 12 It’s All One Book, It’s All One World: George Pelecanos’s Washington DC

Chapter 13 Serializing Evil: David Peace and the Formulae of Crime Fiction

Chapter 14 The Flavour of the Street: The Factory Series by Derek Raymond

Chapter 15 Andrea Camilleri’s Imaginary Vigàta : Between Formula and Innovation

Chapter 16 Sherlock Holmes in Hollywood: Film Series, Genre and Masculinities

Chapter 18 From Flâneur to Traceur? : Léo Malet and Cara Black Construct the PI’s Paris

Chapter 19 The City Lives in Me: Connectivity and Embeddedness in Australia’s Peter Temple and Shane Maloney

Chapter 20 ‘She’s pretty hardboiled, huh?’: Rewriting the Classic Detective in Veronica Mars

Chapter 21 ‘Exspecta Inexspectata’: The Rise of the Supernatural in Hybrid Detective Series for Young Readers