Death in a cold climate a guide to Scandinavian crime fiction
Title:
Death in a cold climate a guide to Scandinavian crime fiction
Author:
Forshaw, Barry.
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Publication Information:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Physical Description:
ix, 207 p.
Series:
Crime files series
Crime files series.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Crime and the Left -- The Cracks Appear: Henning Mankell -- Sweden: The Dream Darkens -- Sweden: Foreign Policy and Unreliable Narratives -- Last Orders: The Larsson Phenomenon -- The Fight Back: Anti-Larsson Writers -- Criminals and Criminologists -- Norway: Crime and Context -- Norway and Nesb -- Iceland: Crime and Context -- Fringe Benefits: Icelandic Woes -- Finland: Crime and Context -- Death in Denmark -- Danish Uncertainties -- Film and TV Adaptations -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
"Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre; from Sjowall and Wahloo's Martin Beck series, through Henning Mankell's Wallander, to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"-- Provided by publisher.
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