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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Chapter 1 Origins
The 18th century and earlier
Poe and Collins
Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 2 The two ages: golden and hard-boiled
Agatha Christie
Sayers and Allingham
The US Golden Age
The arrival of noir and hard-boiled
Raymond Chandler
Chapter 3 Transitions
British reserve
US radicalism
Transatlantic contrasts
Chapter 4 International crime fiction
France
Iberia and Italy
Central and Eastern Europe
East Asia
Latin America
Scandinavia
Chapter 5 Gender
Victorian writing
Golden Age singletons
Reactions to masculinity
Chapter 6 Spy fiction, the thriller and legal drama
Espionage
Escapism and the thriller
The legal drama
Chapter 7 Can crime fiction be taken seriously?
High and low culture
Forms of compromise
References
Further reading
Index
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