Titlebook: American Crime Fiction; A Cultural History o Peter Swirski Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 American Literatu

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Take Two: Nelson DeMille and F. Scott Fitzgerald,Chapter 6 focuses on Nelson DeMille’s novel . in the context of the mob story and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s .. It traces the evolution of the mafia novel in the context of the history of crime and crime fiction in America. It argues that the novel demands to be read as a modern . in its distillate of late twentieth-century American mores and manners

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le.Pioneers a larger discussion about the importance of lowb.Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such he documents the manifold ways in which such authorship and readership are a matter

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Briefcases for Hire: Dashiell Hammett and John Grisham,Grisham. Hammett’s ur-hardboiled . and Grisham’s legal blockbuster . embody their respective eras, zeitgeists, and schools of writing, exemplifying the apparent differences and the underlying similarities between them.

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The Urban Procedural: Ed McBain,, McBain’s factographic aesthetic transforms it into the touchstone of the American urban experience. Charting the excesses of life on the twentieth-century metropolitan frontier, his nobrow . are essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the people who live, work, and commit crime in Ameri

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