The Crossroads of Crime Writing

Meghan P. Nolan, MFA, MA, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Honors program at SUNY Rockland Community College. She is a multigenre writer, who focuses on (Neo-)Victorian and Modern literature/crime writing and fragmented perceptions of self-hood through many published academic works, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Rebecca Martin, PhD, is Professor Emerita of English at Pace University in New York. In addition to her PhD, which focused on the eighteenth-century Gothic novel in England, she holds a graduate certificate in film studies from CUNY Graduate Center, and her interest in crime writing focuses on the hardboiled tradition.

Introduction Meghan P. Nolan and Rebecca Martin;  1. Unseen Structures and the Outlaw: Depictions of Violations in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy; 2. Dark Waters: Eco-Noir in New York 2140; 3. Between Lenin and Sherlock Holmes: Soviet Militsiya Procedural in Volodymyr Kashin’s Detective Fiction; 4. Detecting Justice: Black Crime Fiction and the Novels of Attica Locke; 5. The Police and the Private Eye: The Making of Gendered and Racial Peripheralization in the Crime Fiction of Valerie Wilson Wesley; 6. Navigating the Carceral City: Calcutta in Late Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Detection; 7. Traversing the Borders of Poverty and Morality: The Intersection of Maps and Upper-Class Ethics in Anne Perry’s Neo-Victorian Series; 8. Facts and Fictions: The Liminal Space Between True Crime and Crime Fiction; 9. The Success(Ion) and Corruption of Crime Genres in Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth (2018); 10. The Golden Age Meets the Age of Aquarius: Agatha Christie in the 1960s; Notes on Editors and Contributors; Permissions; Index