The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Crime Fiction
摘要
This encyclopedia is the first major reference book in the emerging field of global/world crime fiction. Ambitious in its global scope, the work includes alphabetical entries on all major national crime traditions, covering Africa, Asia, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East, North American and the Caribbean, and Oceania. Smaller crime fictions are also represented through regional entries such as those on Central American crime fiction and Gulf States. Entries will also cover significant writers of world crime fiction, from Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie to Raymond Chandler to Stieg Larsson and to Natsuo Kirino, as well as global city centers of crime including London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Barcelona, Shanghai, Mexico City, and Mumbai. It will also feature transnational topics such as classic detective fiction, hardboiled, noir, state-socialism, and environmental crime fiction.