Abstract
Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Evolution of the Place-Based Police Procedural The Police Procedural Genre Placed-Based Police Procedurals Why Do We Read This Stuff, Anyway? Chapter 3. Murder in America The Navajo Counery of Tony Hillerman The Cherokee Country of Jean Hager The New Orleans of James Lee Burke The New Orleans of Julie Smith The Houston and Latin America of David Lindsey The American Midwest of P. M. Carlson The American Northwest of J. A. Jance Susan Dunlap's Berkeley The Canadian North of Scott Young The Mexico of Paco Taibo II Conclusion Chapter 4. Murder in the United Kingdom and Ireland The London of P. D. James Colin Dexter's Oxford Rural England: The Yorkshire of Peter Robinson Glasgow and the Scotland of Peter Turnbull Dublin and the Ireland of Bartholomew Gill Conclusion Chapter 5. Murder on the European Continent The Italy of Michael Dibdin The Provincial France of Nicolas Freeling The Amsterdam of Janwillem van de Wetering The Stockholm of Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall Conclusion Chapter 6. From Moscow with Murder Marin Cruz Smith Stuart Kaminsky Conclusion Chapter 7. Murder in the Orient Expressly The Japan of Seicho Matsumoto The Japan of James Melville The Hong Kong of William Marshall The Beijing of Cristopher West Conclusion Chapter 8. Other Places for Murder The Israel of Batya Gur The Indian Subcontinent of H. R. F. Keating The South Africa of James McClure The Australian Outback of Arthur Upfield Conclusion Chapter 9. Murder in Historical Context The Roman Empire of Lindsey Davis The Seventh-Century China of Robert Van Gulik The Victorian England of Anne Perry The Turn-of-the-Century Cairo of Michael Pearce Conclusion Chapter 10. More Places for Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem The Police Procedural as an Effective Conveyor of Place Subplots and Secondary Agenda What Happens When Authors Get Their Places Wrong? Socially Contingent Places The Police Procedural as a Source of Sense of Place Appendix: Selected Series Fictional Works Cited Notes Index
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