Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index
The old guard in the mid-1990s : Muller, Grafton, and Paretsky -- The old guard continued : Kaminsky, Parker, and Block -- The personal and the regional : new forms of authenticity in female crime writing -- Three pictures from the institution : Forrest, Barr, and Hightower -- Los Angeles Police Department : Ellroy's and Connelly's police procedurals -- Private investigation in the 1990s -- The 'English tradition' in contemporary American crime fiction -- Historical mysteries -- In Waco's wake : Patricia Cornwell and Mary Willis Walker -- 'Other' detectives : the emergence of ethnic crime writing -- Black female crime writing -- The persistence of gender : the private investigators of S.J. Rozan
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism
Crime in literature
Criminals in literature
Detective and mystery stories, American-- History and criticism