The Laughing Policeman / by Sjöwall, Maj, 1935-2020, author 654126, Wahlöö, Per, 1926-1975, author 206212, Blair, Alan, translator 654127

“…The fantastic fourth classic instalment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that have inspired all crime fiction written ever since. The Martin Beck series is widely recognised as the greatest masterpiece of crime fiction ever written. …”

Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of 'Madame Bovary' and 'Jane Eyre' by Katie Jones

“…Since the 1990s, a trend towards adapting, rewriting, or otherwise engaging with the literary canon—especially the nineteenth-century novel—via the popular genre of crime fiction may be observed in both French and English. …”
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The Man on the Balcony / by Sjöwall, Maj, 1935-2020, author 654126, Wahlöö, Per, 1926-1975, author 206212, Blair, Alan, translator 654127

“…The third thrilling classic instalment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that have inspired all crime fiction written ever since. The Martin Beck series is widely recognised as the greatest masterpiece of crime fiction ever written. …”

‘The many-layered palimpsest: metafiction, genre fiction, and Georges Perec’s “53 jours”’ by Kemp, S

“…French Crime Fiction and the Palimpsest Angela Kimyongür, Amy Wigelsworth. …”

Quand l’enquêteur se met à table by Loïc Marcou

“…In this article, I will intend to show the long-standing relationship in most crime fiction detectives' lives–that is with food and gastronomy. …”
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“I Stand Out Like a Raven”: Depicting the Female Detective and Tudor History in Nancy Bilyeau’s The Crown by Beyer Charlotte

“…My investigation of The Crown as crime fiction specifically involves analysing gender-political questions and their portrayal within the novel and its tumultuous historical context. …”
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"Espera, ponte así": Eroticism and the Andreu Martín’s Work by Javier Rivero Grandoso

“…<p>Andreu Martín is one of the most important crime fiction’s authors in Spain, since he started his literary career in the late 1970’s. …”
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The Bone Readers de Jacob Ross by Benoît Tadié

“…How does one put the Caribbean on the map of crime fiction? Or crime fiction on the map of the Caribbean? …”
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Kryminalne gry z czytelnikiem by Julia Poświatowska

“…Figures in Reading Crime Fiction] in which he presents different models of impact that crime literature has on a reader, with special reference to so-called reading for pleasure. …”
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Partners in Crime: Readers, Translators, Characters and the Promotion of a Genre by David Platten

“…It suggests that the development of a body of research on crime fiction has resulted in the widespread acceptance of a finite number of unassailable generic qualities. …”
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Wallander's Dark Geopolitics by Stougaard-Nielsen Jakob

“…A current fault line in the study of crime fiction as a transnational genre is to what extent crime novels offer readers genuine cosmopolitan windows onto other worlds and cultures or whether it simply is bound to reproduce trite imagologies and national stereotypes. …”
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Hacia una nueva poética del policial cubano: la trilogía de Leo Martín, de Lorenzo Lunar Cardedo by Carlos Uxó

“…Similarly, Padura's novels have led to a series of studies, many of them written by academics usually reluctant to pay attention to crime fiction.  At the same time, however, the impact of Padura’s novels, and the tendency to focus exclusively on them, has meant that few detailed analyses have been published on both the Cuban neopolicial as a phenomenon, and the work of certain writers in particular. …”
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The Narrative Grammar of Classic Detective Fiction by Martin Hudymač

“…Sayers) and „hardboiled“ crime fiction typical of American writers (D. Hammett, R. …”
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Detective Fiction and Police: Reflections on Two Critic Interventions (José Pablo Feinmann and Carlos Gamerro) by Hernán Maltz

“…I propose a close reading on two critical interventions about crime fiction in Argentina: “Estado policial y novela negra argentina” (1991) by José Pablo Feinmann and “Para una reformulación del género policial argentino” (2006) by Carlos Gamerro. …”
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THE GODFATHER" AS AN EXAMPLE OF AN ETHNIC NOVEL by Branka Kalogjera

“…Mario Puzo's novel "The Godfather" belongs to the "crime fiction" genre but it can also be looked at as being an example of an ethnic novel, due to its many ethnic traits. …”
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A produção científica sobre literatura policial: análise da temática Agatha Christie a partir do Currículo Lattes by Michely Jabala Mamede Vogel

“…Foram criadas associações responsáveis por reunir pesquisadores do gênero como a International Crime Fiction Association (2017), os periódicos científicos voltados à literatura policial:  Clues: a Journal of Detection (2008) e Crime Fiction Studies (2020), e a publicação A Companion to Crime Fiction (2010). …”
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Cronache del disincanto. Una comparazione tra Manuel Vázquez Montalbán e Bruno Morchio by Alessio Piras

“…This essay applies the crónica del desincanto theory to Bruno Morchio's crime fiction through a comparison between the first three novels of the Bacci Pagano's series and the first three novels of the Pepe Carvalho sagas, by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. …”
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Sérialité générique, modes de consommation et question de vérité Le cas de Détective by Matthieu Letourneux

“…It plays with literary conventions imitating crime fiction models. He bases his stories on a verisimilitude largely defined by these fictional references. …”
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Lu à l’ouest, le crime de l’est a du lest by Paul Bleton

“…Based on a corpus of Eastern and Western crime novels dealing with crime in the former Eastern Bloc countries, three issues are examined: the globalization of the crime fiction market through French translation and a few of its deterritorializing consequences for writers and readers; the a priori pragmaticsemantic configurations informing the act of reading (culture of fiction, culture of the author and culture of the reader); the symbolic displacement of the disappeared Iron Curtain towards two types of thematic border: one by excess (the perpetuated over-border) and the other by default (the checkpoint and the confines). …”
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Ibsen’s Evangelical Detective: Evidence and Proof in The Wild Duck by Errol Durbach

“…The argument of the paper suggests that Ibsen calls in question the basic premises of the genre (the need, for example, to uncover truth and trace evil to its source thereby restoring a chaotic world to a form of Edenic order) and subverts the most fundamental expectations of the crime fiction reader. Gregers Werle acts on the assumption that the investigator can redeem a fallen humanity by uncovering incontrovertible fact and revealing undisclosed motives; but his deeply subjective, evangelical methods disorient the world even further, leaving the audience with the sense that the uncertainties of existence make such “detection” both irrelevant and dangerous. …”
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