The Routledge Companion To Crime Fiction

<P>The <I>Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction </I>is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends.</P><br/><br/><P></P><br/><br/><P>The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, <I>Approaches,</I> rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II, <I>Devices,</I> examines the textual characteristics of the genre. Part III, <EM>Interfaces</EM>, investigates the complex ways in which crime fiction engages with the defining issues of its context ¿ from policing and forensic science through war, migration and narcotics to digital media and the environment. </P><br/><br/><P></P><br/><br/><P>Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars of crime fiction.