Abstract
This contribution describes the evolution of the crime fiction novel into a genre which over the past decades has become characterized by its internationality. This characterisation applies both in terms of its dissemination and in terms of its narrative subject matter. How crime fiction novels convey local, touristic and geographical knowledge throughout the world, modify it, and create topographical fiction, is described. The maps of cities, countries and neighbourhoods that provide a pictorial element to crime fiction novels are symptomatic of the transformation of the genre from a literature of crime into a literature of geographical and cultural orientation. The evolution of the genre makes possible the drafting of a crime fiction world map in order to examine the international range, examples of gaps and significant clusters. A crime fiction atlas can, in addition to this, form a collection of fictitious and narrative descriptions of localities.
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