New Perspectives on Detective Fiction

<p>This book establishes new perspectives on mystery as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry examining how it shapes issues of social destabilization moral ambiguity reader complicity intertextuality and metafiction. Discussing modern works of mystery and classic pieces essays examine the effect of mystery on literary forms and on readers addressing a variety of forms including novels plays graphic novels television series films and ipad games. Scholars of mystery and detective fiction crime fiction genre studies and cultural studies will find this book invaluable.</p>