1. Classic Detective Fiction
The turn of the century: Sherlock Holmes and his contemporaries
Classic detection in the interwar years
Transforming the tradition in the 1950s and 1960s
2. Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction
The <i>Black Mask</i> boys
The mid-century
paperback revolution
Contemporary investigations
3. Transgression and Pathology
The Prohibition-era gangsters
The killers inside us
Serial killers, pathologists, and police procedurals
4. Crime Fiction as Socio-Political Critique
Despairing of the
Depression
Despoiling Florida
The politics of self-enrichment
5. Black Appropriations
'A Harlem of my mind'
Writing the other Los Angeles
Diasporic identities in contemporary Britain
Detectives, mammies, bitches, and whores
6. Regendering the
Genre
Mothering feminist crime fiction in the 1970s
Butch vs. femme in the Reganite '80s
Unsolved crimes of the '90s
Into the twenty-first century
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Lee Horsley came to England in 1965 as a Fulbright Scholar and has lived here ever since. She did her postgraduate work at the University of Reading and the University of Birmingham, and had a research post at Wadham College, Oxford, 1971-73. She has been a lecturer at the University of
Lancaster since 1974 - currently teaching twentieth-century British and American literature and two specialist crime courses. Over the last fifteen years, she has written Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination (1990), Fictions of Power in English Literature 1900-1950 (1995), and The Noir
Thriller (2001). In collaboration with her daughter, Katharine, she has written several articles on crime fiction and started a highly successful website devoted to the academic study of crime fiction and film, www.crimeculture.com; she is also co-editor and webmaster for www.pulporiginals.com,
which aims to make some of the best mid-century American crime paperbacks available as e-books.
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