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Title Crime fiction in the city : capital crimes / edited by Lucy Andrew and Catherine Phelps.

Publication Info. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 149 pages).
Series European crime fictions
European crime fictions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary A collection of academic essays by literary critics and writers of crime fiction - including a reflective essay by Ian Rankin on his own work - that explores the relationship between crime fiction and the urban spaces of the capital city.
Note Print version record.
Contents Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Edinburgh; 'The map that engenders the territory'? Rethinking Ian Rankin's Edinburgh; Corralling Crime in Cardiff's Tiger Bay; Crimes and Contradictions: the Fictional City of Dublin; From National Authority to Urban Underbelly: Negotiations of Power in Stockholm Crime Fiction; Streets and Squares, Quartiers and Arrondissements: Paris Crime Scenesand the Poetics of Contestation in the Novels of Jean-François Vilar; The Mysteries of the Vatican: from Nineteenth-century Anti-clerical Propaganda to Dan Brown's Religious Thrillers.
A Tale of Three Cities: Megalopolitan Mysteries of the 1840sConclusion; Index.
Subject Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- History and criticism.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
Criminals in literature.
Crime in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
FICTION -- Crime.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Cities and towns in literature. (OCoLC)fst00861865
City and town life in literature. (OCoLC)fst00862097
Crime in literature. (OCoLC)fst00883038
Criminals in literature. (OCoLC)fst00883558
Detective and mystery stories, English. (OCoLC)fst00891515
English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Added Author Andrew, Lucy, editor.
Phelps, Catherine, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Crime fiction in the city. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2013] 9780708325865 (OCoLC)810116592
ISBN 9780708325872 (electronic bk.)
0708325874 (electronic bk.)
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