In this collection of essays, a number of critics offer commentary on the crime fiction genre, exploring the kinds of pleasure it offers. Looking under the attractive surface of these books, the contributors discover a number of complex issues.

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1. Introduction: The Detective in Popular Culture

2. The Golden Age of Detective Fiction

3. Hardboiled Detectives and Noir Tradition

4. Police Procedurals and Crime Scene Investigators

5. Amateur Sleuths and Cozy Mysteries

6. Psychological Profilers and Criminal Minds

7. Detective Films: From Noir to Neo-Noir

8. Television Detectives: Iconic Characters and Series

9. International Detectives: Global Crime Solvers

10. Female Detectives: Breaking the Mold

11. Parody and Satire in Detective Fiction

12. The Future of Detective Stories

• The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

  Ian A. Bell

• McCormick Publicis (Advertising), Manchester, UK

  Graham Daldry

Book Title
Watching the Detectives

Book Subtitle
Essays on Crime Fiction

Editors
Ian A. Bell, Graham Daldry

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10591-5

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan London

eBook Packages
Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Copyright Information
Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990

Softcover ISBN
978-1-349-10593-9
Published: 01 January 1990

eBook ISBN
978-1-349-10591-5
Published: 18 June 1990

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XV, 193

Topics
Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature