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A police sergeant searches for someone (perhaps a hunchback) and a nameless young woman (red-haired, a drug addict, a witness) sodomized by a cop--or is it the narrator? A collation of 56 \"scenes\" set in 1980 Barcelona.
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The Mysterious Romance of Murder
From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade; Nick and Nora Charles to Nero
Wolfe and Archie Goodwin; Harry Lime to Gilda, Madeleine Elster,
and other femmes fatales-crime and crime solving in fiction and
film captivate us. Why do we keep returning to Agatha Christie's
ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled murder
mysteries? What do spy thrillers teach us, and what accounts for
the renewed popularity of morally ambiguous noirs? In The
Mysterious Romance of Murder , the poet and critic David Lehman
explores a wide variety of outstanding books and movies-some famous
(The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity), some known mainly to
aficionados-with style, wit, and passion.
Lehman revisits the smoke-filled jazz clubs from the classic
noir films of the 1940s, the iconic set pieces that defined
Hitchcock's America, the interwar intrigue of Eric Ambler's best
fictions, and the intensity of attraction between Humphrey Bogart
and Lauren Bacall, Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, Cary Grant and
Ingrid Bergman. He also considers the evocative elements of
noir-cigarettes, cocktails, wisecracks, and jazz standards-and
offers five original noir poems (including a pantoum inspired by
the 1944 film Laura) and ironic astrological profiles of Barbara
Stanwyck, Marlene Dietrich, and Graham Greene. Written by a
connoisseur with an uncanny feel for the language and mood of
mystery, espionage, and noir, The Mysterious Romance of
Murder will delight fans of the genre and newcomers alike.
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Crown jewel
International spy Simon Riske connects a series of crimes in Monte Carlo's most lavish casinos to a brutal plot by an organization of criminal gamblers.
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“Just how dangerous is he?” Cormac McCarthy’s Hybridized Crime Fiction
In No Country for Old Men, McCarthy draws on and incorporates genres into his narrative with the effect of expanding the overall possibilities of crime fiction, pushing the boundaries of what narrative structures it can include, and testing the limitations of hybridization. By contrasting three main characters of very different character types associated with very different genres, McCarthy creates the forward energy of the narrative, a characteristic of crime fiction, while presenting a complex and nuanced set of subtexts and motifs more common to literary fiction. Each genre in the narrative offers a different view of key elements of traditional crime fiction: death, knowledge, moral values, character choice, and narrative closure. At the same time, McCarthy disrupts the expectations of those genres, even while relying on various generic elements to heighten the tensions. McCarthy borrows heavily from genre techniques and tropes to expand and intensify his narrative. Genre elements enhance the effect of crime fiction’s notable inclusion of fear, death, and point of view without disrupting the elements of literary fiction.
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The map and the territory
Traces the experiences of artist Jed Martin, who rises to international success as a portrait photographer before helping to solve a heinous crime that has lasting repercussions for his loved ones.
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Peter May’s The Lewis Man and Rebecca Wait’s Our Fathers
This article examines the intersection of crime fiction, the Gothic, and the Scottish island setting through Rebecca Wait’s psychological thriller Our Fathers (2020) and Peter May’s detective novel The Lewis Man (2012). The analysis illustrates how the two novels incorporate selected elements typical of the Scottish Gothic: the taxing process of the construction of identity, the notion of the divided self, the impossibility of forgetting the past, and the ways in which history can be written on and read from the body. In Our Fathers, the fictional island of Litta becomes a claustrophobic space that reinforces the protagonist’s haunted inheritance and struggle with paternal legacy. In contrast, The Lewis Man situates its mystery within the sublime landscapes of the Outer Hebrides, where peat bogs and fragmented memory render personal and national histories simultaneously fragile and recoverable. Ultimately, both texts illustrate how Scottish island-set crime fiction mobilizes Gothic aesthetics to interrogate questions of history, identity, and place. The paper suggests that the island setting not only supports but intensifies Gothic concerns, making the island a particularly productive locus for contemporary Scottish Gothic and crime writing alike.
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Master of the game
Power and success in a man's world have become a deadly and all-consuming game for Kate Blackwell, the head of a great international conglomerate.
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Gangsterland : a novel
\"Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, known for his ability to get in and out of a crime without a trace. Until now, that is. His first-ever mistake forces Sal to botch an assassination, killing three undercover FBI agents in the process. This puts too much heat on Sal, and he knows this botched job will be his death sentence to the Mafia. So he agrees to their radical idea to save his own skin. A few surgeries and some intensive training later, and Sal Cupertine is gone, disappeared into the identity of Rabbi David Cohen. Leading his growing congregation in Las Vegas, overseeing the population and the temple and the new cemetery, Rabbi Cohen feels his wicked past slipping away from him, surprising even himself as he spouts quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament. Yet, as it turns out, the Mafia isn't quite done with him yet. Soon the new cemetery is being used as both a money and body-laundering scheme for the Chicago family. And that rogue FBI agent on his trail, seeking vengeance for the murder of his three fellow agents, isn't going to let Sal fade so easily into the desert. Gangsterland is the wickedly dark and funny new novel by a writer at the height of his power - a morality tale set in a desert landscape as ruthless and barren as those who inhabit it. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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From Euro-noir to Europe
This introduction briefly deals with the major orientations of this European Review Focus on ‘European crime fiction’. It first specifies what is meant by ‘Europe’ and which type of questions can be asked of crime fiction in view of a better understanding of Europe’s multiple and changing identities. It then presents the various contributions by linking them with the three fundamental questions of (1) circulation of crime fiction, (2) expansion of crime fiction in the broader cultural, social and economic field, and (3) the relevance of crime fiction for a thorough reflection on some properly European aspects of culture and society.
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