Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary European Crime Fiction
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This book represents the first extended consideration of contemporary crime fiction as a European phenomenon. Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this practice in specific European countries and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-04-20
Collection : Crime Files
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Télécharger le livre :  Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction
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Why has crime fiction become a global genre? How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the globalization of crime fiction should not be celebrated uncritically....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-23
Collection : Crime Files
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Télécharger le livre :  Unwilling Executioner
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What gives crime fiction its distinctive shape and form?What makes it such a compelling vehicle of social and political critique? Unwilling Executioner argues that the answer lies in the emerging genre's complex and intimate relationship with the bureaucratic state and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-04-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Bloody Winter
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The troubled head of the Detective Branch returns, in an intriguing case of kidnap, rebellion and murder...The body of a vagrant is discovered in a ditch in County Tipperary. Knox, a young Irish policeman with divided loyalties is told that the landowner wants the case...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2011-04-14
Collection : Pyke Mystery
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Télécharger le livre :  The Detective Branch
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Pyke joins the newly formed Detective Branch of the Metropolitan police in a tale of corruption and murder set in the dangerous backstreets of 19th-century London...Drury Lane, 1844. A robbery has been committed at a pawnbroker's, leaving three people dead. The man...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-02-11
Collection : Pyke Mystery
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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Days of Newgate
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'A story of high intrigue and low politics, brutal murder and cunning conspiracies . . . tangy and rambunctious stuff!' Observer 'Gripping and atmospheric' Daily Express'Enjoyably disturbing . . . likely to leave the reader clamouring for more' TLSSt Giles, London,...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2009-03-12
Collection : Pyke Mystery
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6,49
Télécharger le livre :  Kill-Devil And Water
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Pyke returns in a gripping tale of brutal murder and deception, set in the back streets of Victorian London and the cane fields of Jamaica.London: 1840. The economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2008-09-18
Collection : Pyke Mystery
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Télécharger le livre :  The Revenge Of Captain Paine
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Terrific second novel set in the criminal underworld of pre-Victorian England from the author of THE LAST DAYS OF NEWGATEIt is 1835, and with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, railway fever sweeps the country. Pyke is uneasy with the luxury his aristocratic...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2008-09-18
Collection : Pyke Mystery
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