Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Genres -- Literary Codes of Conduct in PRL Crime Fiction: Barańczak, Joe Alex and the Powieść Milicyjna -- Milicja Novel - Incapacitating Readers -- Creation of Literary Hybrids -- Code of Conduct -- Self-Constructing Liminality -- Works Cited -- "Way too meta": Readers, Writers and Transmedia in Castle -- Works Cited -- A Pothead Detective Challenging the Genre: Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice -- The setting and the quest narrative -- The character of the detective -- The detective novel and ideological concerns -- The outcome and conclusion -- Works Cited -- The Quest for Identity in Academic Mystery Fiction -- Works cited -- Tartan Noir: Crime, Scotland and Genre in Ian Rankin's Rebus Novels -- Echoes of Chandler -- The Police Novel -- Gothic overtones -- Investigating the State of Scotland -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Part II: Authors And Texts -- Banville, Simenon, Stark - An Existential Ménage à Trois -- Works cited -- Constructions of Identity and Intertextuality in Martha Grimes's The Black Cat -- Settings and Constructions of Identities in The Black Cat -- Intertextuality in The Black Cat -- Grimes and Poe's "The Black Cat" -- Grimes and Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Cingöz Recai at Work: A Study on Early Turkish Crime Fiction on Film -- Who is Cingӧz Recai? -- Cingӧz Recai on the Silver Screen -- Works cited -- LSD Investigations: The End of Groovy Times and California Noir in Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon -- Works Cited -- Investigating Evil: Crime Fiction Remodelled in When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Bloody Typical: Genre, Intertextuality, and the Gaze in The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh -- Genre -- Intertextuality -- Gaze -- Conclusions -- Works cited.

Whose Letter? Possession, Position and Detection in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter" -- Works cited -- The Detective as Reader: Narration and Interpretation in Arthur Conan Doyle's Detective Stories -- Works cited -- Crime Fiction in South Africa? Nadine Gordimer's Rendition of Crime in "Country Lovers"and "Town Lovers" -- Works cited -- South Asian Sleuths: Colonial, Postcolonial, Cosmopolitan -- Orientalist and vernacular crime fantasy -- Post/colonial Whodunit: HRF Keating's The Perfect Murder -- Postcolonial Revision: Jamyang Norbu's The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes -- Postmodernist and modernized South Asian sleuths -- The sleuth brought home, deconstructed: Vikram Chandra's "Kama" -- Conclusion: The Missing Detective found at a Price -- Works cited -- Part III: Topics -- Her Majesty's Own Murderer? Queen Victoria and Jack the Ripper in Popular Fiction -- Victims and suspects -- The Royal Conspiracy -- The Royal Ripper's life in fiction -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Gender and Genre: Changes in "Women's Work" in Australian Crime Fiction -- Colonial Australia -- 1865 to Federation -- Federation to World War I -- Between World Wars I and II -- The 1940s and 1950s -- The 1960s and the 1970s -- The 1980s to Today -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- "Snort for Caledonia" - Drugs, Masculinity and National Identity in Contemporary Scottish Detective Fiction -- Drugs in (Scottish) Reality and Detective Fiction -- The Scottish detective and the hard-boiled tradition -- Drugs and Scottish Masculinity -- Works Cited -- "...the abyss gazes also into you" - Guilt and Innocence in British Golden Age Detective Fiction and Contemporary Crime Novels -- The puzzle - and some theories -- One of the usual suspects - Agatha Christie -- Investigation continued - Minette Walters -- Conclusions: the jury is still out -- Works Cited.

An American in Europe: US Colonialism in The Talented Mr Ripley and Ripley's Game -- The Talented Mr Ripley Europe, Transformation and Exploitation -- The Cinematic Mr Ripleys -- Ripley's Game/The American Friend -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- The Perverse Charm of the Amoral Serial Killer: Tom Ripley, Dexter Morgan and Seducing the Reader -- Crime Fiction, Justice and Morality -- Aesthetics of Murder -- Seduction, Otherness and the Inhuman -- Works cited -- More Than Meets the (Camera) Eye: Detective Fiction in Times of CCTV -- Cooperation between readers and detective fiction -- Detective Fiction as a metanarrative -- Close-circuit television in the UK -- Less than meets the eye: Ian Rankin's Exit Music -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- The Eating Detective: Food and Masculinity in Robert B. Parker's Spencer Series -- Works Cited -- What's the Word? Sexism and Political Correctness in the Crime Fiction of Robert B. Parker and Sara Paretsky -- Is Spenser PC? -- Gender-Specificity and Names -- A Woman's Place -- On the Surface -- Male-Female Stereotypes -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- The Tut -- Notes on Contributors.