The Millennial Detective - Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990-2010 (Paperback)

Crime fiction has been popular since its rise at the turn of the nineteenth century.This collection of ten critical essays explores the prevailing trends of detective fiction a hundred years after its inception, utilizing texts from international sources and a variety of different theoretical approaches. Of particular interest are the ways in which crime and its detection has been narrated in response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the twentieth century. This book presents both an introductory and international approach to the literary and filmic study of contemporary crime fiction.