Places for dead bodies
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Places for dead bodies
University of Texas Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-205) and index
内容説明・目次
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: cloth ISBN 9780292731271
内容説明
From Tony Hillerman's "Navajo Southwest" to Martin Cruz Smith's "Moscow", an exotic, vividly described locale is one of the great pleasures of many murder mysteries. In fact, the sense of place, no less than the compelling character of the detective, is often what keeps authors writing and readers reading a particular series of mystery novels. This book investigates how "police procedural" murder mysteries have been used to convey a sense of place. Gary Hausladen delves into the work of more than thirty authors, including Tony Hillerman, Martin Cruz Smith, James Lee Burke, David Lindsey, P. D. James, and many others. Arranging the authors by their region of choice, he discusses police procedurals set in America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Europe, Russia, Asia, and selected locales in other parts of the world, as well as in historical places ranging from the Roman Empire to turn-of-the-century Cairo. Gary J. Hausladen is Associate Professor and Chair of Geography at the University of Nevada, Reno, and an avid reader of murder mysteries.
目次
- Contents: Introduction
- The Evolution of the Place-Based Police Procedural
- Murder in America
- Murder in the United Kingdom and Ireland
- Murder on the European Continent
- From Moscow with Murder
- Murder in the Orient Expressly
- Other Places for Murder
- Murder in the Historical Context
- More Places for Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem
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: pbk ISBN 9780292731301
内容説明
From Tony Hillerman's Navajo Southwest to Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow, an exotic, vividly described locale is one of the great pleasures of many murder mysteries. Indeed, the sense of place, no less than the compelling character of the detective, is often what keeps authors writing and readers reading a particular series of mystery novels.
This book investigates how "police procedural" murder mysteries have been used to convey a sense of place. Gary Hausladen delves into the work of more than thirty authors, including Tony Hillerman, Martin Cruz Smith, James Lee Burke, David Lindsey, P. D. James, and many others. Arranging the authors by their region of choice, he discusses police procedurals set in America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Europe, Moscow, Asia, and selected locales in other parts of the world, as well as in historical places ranging from the Roman Empire to turn-of-the-century Cairo.
目次
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Evolution of the Place-Based Police Procedural
The Police Procedural Genre
Placed-Based Police Procedurals
Why Do We Read This Stuff, Anyway?
Chapter 3. Murder in America
The Navajo Counery of Tony Hillerman
The Cherokee Country of Jean Hager
The New Orleans of James Lee Burke
The New Orleans of Julie Smith
The Houston and Latin America of David Lindsey
The American Midwest of P. M. Carlson
The American Northwest of J. A. Jance
Susan Dunlap's Berkeley
The Canadian North of Scott Young
The Mexico of Paco Taibo II
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Murder in the United Kingdom and Ireland
The London of P. D. James
Colin Dexter's Oxford
Rural England: The Yorkshire of Peter Robinson
Glasgow and the Scotland of Peter Turnbull
Dublin and the Ireland of Bartholomew Gill
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Murder on the European Continent
The Italy of Michael Dibdin
The Provincial France of Nicolas Freeling
The Amsterdam of Janwillem van de Wetering
The Stockholm of Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall
Conclusion
Chapter 6. From Moscow with Murder
Marin Cruz Smith
Stuart Kaminsky
Conclusion
Chapter 7. Murder in the Orient Expressly
The Japan of Seicho Matsumoto
The Japan of James Melville
The Hong Kong of William Marshall
The Beijing of Cristopher West
Conclusion
Chapter 8. Other Places for Murder
The Israel of Batya Gur
The Indian Subcontinent of H. R. F. Keating
The South Africa of James McClure
The Australian Outback of Arthur Upfield
Conclusion
Chapter 9. Murder in Historical Context
The Roman Empire of Lindsey Davis
The Seventh-Century China of Robert Van Gulik
The Victorian England of Anne Perry
The Turn-of-the-Century Cairo of Michael Pearce
Conclusion
Chapter 10. More Places for Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem
The Police Procedural as an Effective Conveyor of Place
Subplots and Secondary Agenda
What Happens When Authors Get Their Places Wrong?
Socially Contingent Places
The Police Procedural as a Source of Sense of Place
Appendix: Selected Series
Fictional Works Cited
Notes
Index
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