Crime Fiction in the City
Capital Crimes
Distributed for University of Wales Press
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Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction
Lucy Andrew and Catherine Phelps
2. Edinburgh
Ian Rankin
3. ‘The map that engenders the territory’? Rethinking Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh
Gill Plain
4. Corralling Crime in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay
Catherine Phelps
5. Crimes and Contradictions: the Fictional City of Dublin
Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin
6. From National Authority to Urban Underbelly: Negotiations of Power in Stockholm Crime Fiction
Kerstin Bergman
7. Streets and Squares, Quartiers and Arrondissements: Paris Crime Scenes and the Poetics of Contestation in the Novels of Jean-François Vilar
Margaret Atack
8. The Mysteries of the Vatican: from Nineteenth-century Anti-clerical Propaganda to Dan Brown’s Religious Thrillers
Maurizio Ascari
9. A Tale of Three Cities: Megalopolitan Mysteries of the 1840s
Stephen Knight
Conclusion
Lucy Andrew and Catherine Phelps
Index
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Sociology: Urban and Rural Sociology
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