Post-revisionism: Conflict (Ir)resolution and the Limits of Ambivalence in Kevin McCarthy’s Peeler by Michael McAteer

“…I propose that McCarthy’s novel should be regarded more properly as a post-revisionist work of literature. A piece of detective fiction that is set during the Irish War of Independence from 1919 to 1921, Peeler challenges the romantic nationalist understanding of the War as one of heroic struggle by focusing its attention on a Catholic member of the Royal Irish Constabulary. …”
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Western Image of the Orient and Oriental in Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile: A Postcolonial Reading by Mevlüde ZENGİN

“…Another conclusion reached at the end of this study is that for Christie, the Queen of detective fiction has been considered to be a best-selling novelist of all time, her novel, Death on the Nile with its orientalist attitude to the East and easterner, must have contributed to the construction of a negative and false image of the Orient in western mind and discourse…”
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Belleville rouge, Belleville noir, Belleville rose: The Complex Identity of a Parisian quartier by Carolyn Stott

“…This fusion of fairy tale, detective fiction, myth and reality establishes a complex Bellevillois identity distinct from other contemporary representations. …”
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Mysteries of science fiction: postcritique, cognition, and genre by Bartolotta, S

“…This approach is then implemented through analyses of texts of speculative fiction that display a generic hybridization with the major traditions of crime and mystery literature: spanning from the late-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, texts examined include British occult detective fiction, Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, Stanisław Lem’s detective novels, and five cybernoir novels. …”

POETICS OF RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS OF ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE’S DETECTIVE STORY "THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND " by Вероника Евгеньевна Миронова (Veronika E. Mironova)

“…Creative writing of Conan Doyle as the author of short stories and novels about famous Sherlock Holmes had a great impact on the evolution of the detective fiction genre, which has been of great interest for readers and researchers in Russia. …”
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Food And Pollution In Two Films From Contemporary Japan by Hartley, Barbara

“…Loosely based on a short story by pre-war detective fiction/horror writer, Edogawa Rampo (1894–1965), the frenzied Gemini depicts the desperate modern attempt to suppress and eradicate the "filth" of the poor and socially dispossessed. …”
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Mapping London in Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem: Promenades into a Murderer's Mind by Kuğu TEKİN

“…The use of postmodern narrative techniques in the novel's plot structure enables the author not only to challenge the norms of traditional detective fiction and reconstruct the genre but also to make the reader reconsider the concept of crime and criminal psychology which are based on prejudices and presumptions. …”
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Crime, Fear and the Law in True Crime Stories by Anita Biressi by Tarik Sabry

“…The cover also bears the words ‘Crime Files’ in the graphic style of a police case-folder stamp, this being the general title of the series within which Biressi’s book is published, and the brief overview of the series describes it as ‘offering scholars, students and discerning readers a comprehensive set of guides to the world of crime and detective fiction’. I comment on these details of the book’s presentation because it seems to me that they immediately raise questions about some of the difficulties that Biressi is attempting to unravel. …”
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Od dawnego do współczesnego Poznania w kryminale by Marta Nowak

“… From old-time to modern Poznań in detective stories The article discusses the image of Poznań in detective fiction written after 1989. The criminal stories were selected in such a way that their action takes place in different times, the purpose of the paper is to show how the choice of names affects the understanding of the novel’s content and compare the names used by the author with the real urban nomenclature with that of Poznan, both presently and in the period in which the piece is set. …”
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Note sulla violenza in Django Unchained by Stefano Rosso

“…La violenza western è altamente stilizzata, ritualizzata e ipercodificata, spesso quasi prevedibile, raramente ‘sporca’ come quella bellica o come nella detective fiction hard-boiled degli anni Venti e Trenta, nei sottogeneri del gangster e del thriller, e soprattutto nell’horror.[3]…”
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La Celestina y El Lazarillo en El manuscrito de piedra y El manuscrito de nieve, de Luis García Jambrina by José Ignacio Barrio Olano

“…Abstract: Modeled after Umberto Eco´s The Name of the Rose, Luis García Jambrina novels El manuscrito de piedra and El manuscrito de nieve reconstruct Salamanca at the times of the Catholic Monarchs with a detective fiction that narrates the activities of a young Fernando de Rojas, the presumed author of La Celestina, in order to clarify a number of crimes and deaths, including that of Prince John of Trastamara. …”
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Beyond sentimentality: animal characters in nineteenth-century fiction by Cullen, LI

“…It addresses this lacuna by examining the fraught relationship between literary character, realism, and animals across four genres: sensation fiction, detective fiction, the realistic wild animal story, and the animal (auto)biography. …”

Comparative Analysis and Comparison of Police and Detective Literature Components in the Works of Agatha Christie and Ismail Fasih by elham arabshahi kashi, Reza Shajari

“…Extended Abstract Introduction Detective fiction is one of the most popular branches of fiction all over the world. …”
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Indagini radiestesiche e romanzo poliziesco: il caso dell’ing. Pietro Zampa by Alessandra Calanchi, Marco Monari

“…The aim of this article is to show and analyze the method of investigation carried out by the detective in these novels, which is absolutely extraordinary because it contravenes both the traditional rules of detective fictions and the rules of the fascist regime.…”
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The Frontier as Masculine Territory: Sam Hawken’s The Dead Women of Juárez in Context by M. Isabel Santaularia i Capdevila

“…Contemporary adventure narratives – from westerns and war stories to thrillers and hard-boiled detective fictions – still insistently activate the myth of the frontier, which is offered as a space where men can achieve regeneration and a sense of purpose by indulging a form of masculinity based on violence and aggression. …”
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