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This Compilation Of Essays Attempts To Trace The Reasons Behind The Ongoing Popularity Of Crime Fiction. It Contains Twenty-one Original Essays Written By Scholars And Practitioners Of Crime Fiction Which Discuss Key Concepts In Crime Fiction Studies: Generic Diversity, The Evolution Of Characters And The Growing Significance Of Space And Place-- More Than Guilty Pleasure: The Case Of Crime Fiction / Stephen Butler And Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-charlish -- Navigating The Boarders Of Reality: Johan Theorin And The Gothic Revival In Swedish Crime Fiction / Kerstin Bergman -- Beyond Anthropocentrism: Transformations Of Criminal Genre In Science Fiction / Maurice N. Fadel -- Chekhov As Crime Writer: Detecting Intertextuality In The Safety Match / Marcia A. Morris -- A Mirror Of Society: Japanese Crime Fiction / Wendy Jones Nakanishi -- Mock Turtle: Dorothy L. Sayers, The Golden Age Detective Novel, And Modernist Fiction / Eric Sandberg -- Gothic Crimes: Rebus And The Ghosts Of The Past / Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-charlish -- Beyond Our Illusory Homelands: Representability, Deception, And Epistemological Angst In John Burnside's A Summer Of Drowning (2012) / Monika Szuba -- Diegetic Border-crossing In Agatha Christie's Miss Marple Short Stories / Jadwiga Węgrodzka -- Curious Incident Of The Lost Children / Stephen Butler -- From Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes To Donan Coyle's Shairlock Holtes: The Beginnings Of The Italian Canon Of Crime Fiction / Marianna D'ezio -- Zen, Existentialism And Crime: Janwillem Van De Wetering's Amsterdam Cops / Arco Van Leperen -- Fuckin' Cheesecake. Of Course There's A Contract Out On Us And All: Adapting George V. Higgins / Gill Jamieson And Tony Grace -- Neo-victorian Revisions Of Inspector Abberline: From Hell & Ripper Street / Lucyna Krawczyk-żywko -- The Detection Of Crime Vs. The Crime Of Detection: P.d. James's Uneasy Detectives / Miriam Loth -- Ethnicity And Criminality In Richard Head's The English Rogue Described In The Life Of Meriton L