The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today.

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Janice Allan is Associate Dean in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford, UK.

Jesper Gulddal is Associate Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Stewart King is Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Australia.

Andrew Pepper is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at Queen's University, Belfast.

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The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today.

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Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: New Directions in Crime Fiction Scholarship Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King and Andrew Pepper PartI: Approaches Genre Jesper Gulddal and Stewart King Counterhistories and Prehistories Maurizio Ascari The Crime Fiction Series Ruth Mayer Crime Fiction in the Marketplace Emmett Stinson Adaptations Neil McCaw Hybridisation Heather Duerre Humann Graphic Crime Novels Robert Prickett and Casey A. Cothran World Literature Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Translation Karen Seago and Victoria Lei Transnationality Barbara Pezzotti Gender and Sexuality Gill Plain Race and Ethnicity Sam Naidu Coloniality and Decoloniality Shampa Roy Psychoanalysis Heta Pyrhönen PartII: Devices Murders Michael Harris-Peyton Victims Rebecca Mills Detectives David Geherin Criminals Christiana Gregoriou Beginnings and Endings Alistair Rolls Plotting Martin Edwards Cl