Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ch. 1. The crime novel: guilt and menace
  • ch. 2. Deviant impulses: incest and doubting
  • ch. 3. Ontological insecurities: time and space
  • ch. 4. Devil or angel: fatal passion in the American crime novel
  • ch. 5. Pale criminals and murderees: the problem of justice in the English crime novel
  • ch. 6. Civilization and its discontents: [Georges] Simenon, [Margaret] Millar, [Patricia] Highsmith, and [Jim] Thompson.