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Palgrave Serial Crime Fiction Dying for More by Carolina Miranda, Jean Anderson, Barbara Pezzotti
Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers, Paretsky, Ellroy, Marklund, Camilleri, Borges, across print, film and television._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
1. Introduction _x000D_
PART I: THE SUM OF ITS PARTS: WHAT MAKES A SERIES?_x000D_
2. Stephen Burroughs, Serial Offender; Jon Blandford_x000D_
3. The Myth of the Gentleman Burglar: Models of Serialization and Temporality in Early Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction; Federico Pagello_x000D_
4. '' ''More than the Sum of its Parts: Borges, Bioy Casares and the Phenomenon of the Septimo Circulo Collection '' ''; Carolina Miranda_x000D_
5. Serializing Sullivan: Vian/Sullivan, the Serie noire, and the effet de collection; Clara Sitbon, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan and Alistair Rolls_x000D_
6. Armed and Dangerous: Le Poulpe and the Formalization of French Noir; Pim Higginson_x000D_
7. Acts of Violence: The World War II Veteran Private-Eye Movie as an Ideological Crime Series; Nick Heffernan_x000D_
8. The Structure of the Whole: James Ellroy '' ''s LA Quartet Series; Steven Powell _x000D_
PART II: AS TIME GOES BY: PROGRESSING THE SERIES_x000D_
9. The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series; Brittain Bright_x000D_
10. Series Fiction and the Challenge of Ideology: the Feminism of Sara Paretsky; Sabine Vanacker_x000D_
11. From Conflicted Mother to Lone Avenger: Transformations of the Woman Journalist Detective in Liza Marklund '' ''s Crime Series; Kerstin Bergman_x000D_
12. It '' ''s All One Book. It '' ''s All One World: George Pelecanos '' ''s Washington DC; Eduardo Obrado_x000D_
13. Serializing Evil: David Peace and the Formulae of Crime Fiction; Nicoletta Vallorani_x000D_
14. The Flavour of the Street: The Factory Series by Derek Raymond; Anna Pasolini_x000D_
15. Andrea Camilleri '' ''s Imaginary Vigata, Between Formula and Innovation; Barbara Pezzotti_x000D_
PART III: TRANPOSITION, IMITATION, INNOVATION_x000D_
16. Sherlock Holmes in Hollywood: Film Series, Genre and Masculinities; Maysaa Jaber_x000D_
17. Murder, Mayhem and Clever Branding: the Stunning Success of J.B. Fletcher; Rachel Franks and Donna Lee Brien_x000D_
18. From flaneur to traceur?: Leo Malet and Cara Black Construct the PI '' ''s Paris; Jean Anderson_x000D_
19. The City Lives in Me: Connectivity and Embeddedness in Australia '' ''s Peter Temple and Shane Maloney; Carolyn Beasley_x000D_
20. '' ''She '' ''s pretty hardboiled, huh? '' '' Rewriting the Classic Detective in Veronica Mars; Taryn Norman_x000D_
21. '' ''Exspecta Inexspectata '' '': The Rise of the Supernatural in Hybrid; Detective Series for Young Readers; Lucy Andrew_x000D_
Bibliography _x000D_
Index_x000D_