CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose

HISTORY AND THEORY

1 Coca-Colonials Write Back: Localizing the Global in Canadian Crime Fiction

Beryl Langer

2 Canadian Crime Writing in English

David Skene-Melvin

ESSAYS ON FICTION

3 Canadian Psycho: Genre, Nation, and Colonial Violence in Michael Slade’s Gothic RCMP Procedurals

Brian Johnson

4 Northern Procedures: Policing the Nation in Giles Blunt’s The Delicate Storm

Manina Jones

5 Revisioning the Dick: Reading Thomas King’s Thumps DreadfulWater Mysteries

Jennifer Andrews and Priscilla L. Walton

6 Generic Play and Gender Trouble in Peter Robinson’s In a Dry Season

Jeannette Sloniowski

7 A Colder Kind of Gender Politics: Intersections of Feminism and Detection in Gail Bowen’s Joanne Kilbourn Series

Pamela Bedore

8 Queer Eye for the Private Eye: Homonationalism and the Regulation of Queer Difference in Anthony Bidulka’s Russell Quant Mystery Series

Péter Balogh

9 Under/Cover: Strategies of Detection and Evasion in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace

Marilyn Rose

ESSAYS ON TELEVISION

10 Televising Toronto in the 1960s: Wojeck and the Urban Crime Drama

Sarah A. Matheson

11 North of Quality? “Quality” Television and the Suburban Crimeworld of Durham County

Lindsay Steenberg and Yvonne Tasker

12 Mounties and Metaphysics in Canadian Film and Television

Patricia Gruben

Contributors

Index