Malcah Effron is a Lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication program at MIT. She has published diverse articles on detective fiction and is a peer reviewer for The Journal of Popular Culture. Additionally, she is one of the co-founders of the International Crime Studies Network. This is her first book.

• Table of ContentsForeword by Stephen Knight      Preface by Malcah Effron      Introduction by Malcah Effron      Crime Fiction and the Politics of Place: The Post-9/11 Sense of Place in Sara Paretsky and Ian Rankin(P. M. NEWTON)      A Normal Pathology? Patricia Cornwell’s Third- Person Novels(BETH HEAD)      Inheriting the Mantle: Wallander and Daughter(SUSAN MASSEY)      “A Visitor for the Dead”: Adam Dalgliesh as a Serial Detective(SABINE VANACKER)      Transforming Genres: Subversive Potential and the Interface between Hard- Boiled Detective Fiction and Chick(SONJA ALTNOEDER)      The Poetics of Deviance and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time(CHRISTIANA GREGORIOU)      “A Natural Instinct for Forensics”: Trace Evidence and Embodied Gazes in The Bone Collector<BR>(LINDSAY STEENBERG)      “Post- Modern or Post- Mortem?” Murder as a Self- Consuming Artifact in Red Dragon(DAVID LEVENTE PALATINUS)      Revisiting Paranoia: The “Witch Hunts” in James Ellroy’s The Big Nowhere and Walter Mosley’s A Red Death(MAUREEN SUNDERLAND)      A Detective Series with Love Interruptions? The Heteronormative Detective Couple in ContemporaryCrime Fiction (MALCAH EFFRON)      Detective Fiction and Serial Protagonists: An Interview with Ian Rankin(SIÂN HARRIS and MALCAH EFFRON)      About the Contributors      Index