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><p></p><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><p></p><p>Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars of crime fiction. </p><p></p>