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1. Classic Detective Fiction; The turn of the century: Sherlock Holmes and his contemporaries; Classic detection in the interwar years; Transforming the tradition in the 1950s and 1960s; 2. Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction; The Black Mask boys; The mid-century paperback revolution; Contemporary investigations; 3. Transgression and Pathology; The Prohibition-era gangsters; The killers inside us; Serial killers, pathologists, and police procedurals; 4. Crime Fiction as Socio-Political Critique; Despairing of the Depression; Despoiling Florida; The politics of self-enrichment; 5. Black Appropriations; ’A Harlem of my mind’; Writing the other Los Angeles; Diasporic identities in contemporary Britain; Detectives, mammies, bitches, and whores; 6. Regendering the Genre; Mothering feminist crime fiction in the 1970s; Butch vs. femme in the Reganite ’80s; Unsolved crimes of the ’90s; Into the twenty-first century

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