Mostly French

The Editor: Alistair Rolls is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, where he teaches French. He is the author of The Flight of the Angels: Intertextuality in Four Novels by Boris Vian (1999) and co-editor with Elizabeth Rechniewski of Sartre’s ‘Nausea’: Text, Context, Intertext (2005). He has recently completed a study of French noir fiction, which has been published in a book co-written with Deborah Walker, French and American Noir: Dark Crossings (2009).

Contents: Alistair Rolls: An Uncertain Space: (Dis-)Locating the Frenchness of French and Australian Detective Fiction - Toni Johnson-Woods: Crime Fiction's Cultural Field: Carter Brown in France - Sue Ryan-Fazilleau: Murder in Montparnasse and Kerry Greenwood's French Connection - John Ramsland/Marie Ramsland: Re-assessing Arthur W. Upfield's Napoleon Bonaparte Detective Fiction - John West-Sooby: Lost - and Found - in Translation: The Frenchification of Australian Crime - Jean Fornasiero: Wakefield Queens of Crime Go to Paris: The Publishing Adventures of Patricia Carlon and Charlotte Jay - Françoise Grauby: 'In the noir': The Blind Detective in Brigitte Aubert's La mort des bois - Alistair Rolls: Reading and Writing the Primal Crime Scene: Fred Vargas's Dans les bois éternels.