Description:Our volume consists of 16 contributions from American, European,
Australian
and New Zealand scholars. It covers twentieth- and twenty-first-century
works with a wide range of settings, such as Argentina, Australia,
Britain,
China, Cuba, Denmark, France and the French Pacific, Germany,
Italy, New Zealand,
Spain and Sweden. Our contributors analyse, along with
lesser-known authors, a number of internationally reputed detective and spy
fiction writers, including Arthur Conan Doyle, John le Carré, Martin Cruz
Smith, Andrea Camilleri, Stieg Larsson, Peter Høeg, Arthur Upfield and Fred
Vargas. The essays are organized into three major categories, although we hasten
to acknowledge that there is often a considerable overlap between these.