Masquerade, Crime and Fiction

LINDEN PEACH is Professor and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK. He was previously Professor of Modern Literature at the Universities of Gloucestershire and Loughborough. His previous publications include studies of Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter and the contemporary Irish novel.

• Preface Acknowledgements Mocking Modernity Gender and Performance in the Criminal Masquerade The Cadaver as Criminalised Text Where does that Criminality Come From? Women in a Criminalising Modernity Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Sara Paretsky: The New Woman Masquerade, Criminality and Desire in Toni Morrison's Fiction Writing the Serial and Callous Killer into (Post) Modernity Conclusion Notes Index

' a significant and worthwhile contribution to the study of crime fiction Peach's excellent study deserves to be taken seriously by those working in the expanding area of crime fiction.' Bran Nicol, Review of English Studies