The Millennial Detective : Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990-2010

International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the twentieth century. Employing critical tools new to crime-fiction studies, the essays also gesture toward a future for genre scholarship. International In Scope And Varied In Its Theoretical Approaches, This Collection Of Ten Critical Essays Examines The Prevailing Trends In Recent Crime Fiction. Of Particular Interest Are Shifting, And Increasingly Globalized, Conceptions Of Crime, As Well As The Genre's Response To Technological, Legal, And Social Changes At The End Of The Twentieth Century--provided By Publisher. Introduction / By Malcah Effron -- Crime Fiction And The Politics Of Place: The Post-9/11 Sense Of Place In Sara Paretsky And Ian Rankin / P. M. Newton -- A Normal Pathology? Patricia Cornwell's Third-person Novels / Beth Head -- Inheriting The Mantle: Wallander And Daughter / Susan Massey -- A Visitor For The Dead: Adam Dalgliesh As A Serial Detective / Sabine Vanacker -- Transforming Genres: Subversive Potentialand The Interface Between Hard-boiled Detective Fiction And Chick Lit / Sonja Altnoeder -- The Poetics Of Deviance And The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time / Christiana Gregoriou -- A Natural Instinct For Forensics: Trace Evidence And Embodied Gazes In The Bone Collector / Lindsay Steenberg -- Post-modern Or Post-mortem Murder As A Self-consuming Artifact In Red Dragon / David Levente Palatinus -- Revisiting Paranoia: The Witch Hunts In James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere And Walter Mosley's A Red Death / Maureen Sunderland -- A Detective Series With Love Interruptions? The Heteronormative Detective Couple In Contemporary Crime Fiction / Malcah Effron -- Detective Fiction & Serial Protagonists: An Interview With Ian Rankin / Sian Harris And Malcah Effron. Edited By Malcah Effron ; Foreword By Stephen Knight. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 Foreword • Stephen Knight 10 Preface • Malcah Effron 14 Introduction • Malcah Effron 18 Crime Fiction and the Politics of Place: The Post-9/11 Sense of Place in Sara Paretsky and Ian Rankin • P. M. Newton 30 A Normal Pathology? Patricia Cornwell’s Third-Person Novels • Beth Head 45 Inheriting the Mantle: Wallander and Daughter • Susan Massey 59 “A Visitor for the Dead”: Adam Dalgliesh as a Serial Detective • Sabine Vanacker 75 Transforming Genres: Subversive Potential and the Interface between Hard- Boiled Detective Fiction and Chick Lit • Sonja Altnoeder 91 The Poetics of Deviance and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time • Christiana Gregoriou 106 “A Natural Instinct for Forensics”: Trace Evidence and Embodied Gazes in The Bone Collector • Linsday Steenberg 121 “Post- Modern or Post- Mortem?” Murder as a Self-Consuming rtifact in Red Dragon • David Levente Palatinus 137 Revisiting Paranoia: The “Witch Hunts” in James Ellroy’s The Big Nowhere and Walter Mosley’s A Red Death • Maureen Sunderland 151 A Detective Series with Love Interruptions? The Heteronormative Detective Couple in Contemporary Crime Fiction • Malcah Effron 166 Detective Fiction and Serial Protagonists: An Interview with Ian Rankin • Siân Harris and Malcah Effron 182 About the Contributors 194 Index 196 International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the 20th century. Employing critical tools new to crime-fiction studies, the essays also gesture toward a future for genre scholarship.