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	About Hard Case Crime
		From World War II through the 1960s, paperback crime novels were one of the fastest-selling categories in book publishing.
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	Crime fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.
		However, his novel Mildred Pierce (1941) is really about the rise to success of an ordinary housewife developing her entrepreneurial skills and — legally — outsmarting her business rivals, and the domestic trouble caused by her success, with, in turn, her husband, her daughter and her lover turning against her.
		Some of the crime novels generally regarded as the finest, including those which are regularly chosen by experts as belonging to the best 100 crime novels ever written (see bibliography), have been out of print ever since their first publication, which often dates back to the 1920s or 30s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crime_fiction (2421 words)

	Find me an Author: Crime Fiction database of Author images.
		First there is the crime, usually a murder; then there is the investigation; and finally the outcome or judgement, often in the shape of the criminal's arrest or death.
		Crime is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred.
		Equally as important in the history of the crime fiction genre was Agatha Christie(1890-1976) who was born in Devon and educated at home, studying singing and piano in Paris.
	www.findmeanauthor.com /crime.htm (564 words)

	Category:Crime novels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General crime novels (but not Mystery and Detective stories i.e.
		For non-fiction books about crimes, see Cat:Non-fiction crime books.
		The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Crime_novels (90 words)

	Crime Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pulp fiction, as crime fiction is more popularly known, has long enjoyed a privileged place in the demimonde of American literary opinion -- prized by intellectuals who have raided it for a lively vernacular, forbidden sensation, or the cachet of slumming it.
		With the publication of the Library of America's two-volume collection of crime novels, a not-so-subtle case is being made for pulp fiction's place in the American literary tradition.
		In their day, the writers in Crime Novels operated like guerrillas, recklessly and clandestinely, and that underground energy is what gives the best of this work its bitter power.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/books/97/11/20/CRIME_NOVELS.html (948 words)

	Bleeker Books - Crime Novels Of The 1950s
		The best American crime novels deserve their place in the pantheon of American literature, but they hold special interest for cinema enthusiasts, who can both compare them to the movies they became and can roll imaginary films of the stories in their minds.
		Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s is the second of Library of America's two-volume anthology of underground U.S. fiction.
		"Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950's" is the second and last volume of the hardboiled anthology published by the Library of America starting with the volume devoted to the genre in the 30's and 40's.
	www.bleekerbooks.com /Books/Titles/Book.asp?ID=579 (1816 words)

	Crime Novels
		Bloody Murder: from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel is Julian Symons history and review of crime fiction in its second revised and expanded edition.
		The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction is an academic study of crime fiction and neighbouring genres.
		Crime and Mystery: the 100 Best Books is a personal top 100 list, giving an insightful comment on eadch, by a leading crime writer, H.
	www.janeriks.no /Books/crime.htm (263 words)

	Moral Ambiguities and the Crime Novels of P.D. James
		James herself prefers to call the genre the “crime novel,” for she is concerned with much more than the writing of escapist thrillers.
		The crime is usually a murder; with the discovery of the identity of the murderer, the criminal experiences a kind of Aristotelian reversal.
		The crimes she constructs occur in a closed community with its limited number of suspects and a set of distorted relationships where the family no longer exists as a cohesive unit.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1403 (3267 words)

	Crime Books and Authors
		Books about true crime are moving from the back to the front of bookstores and public libraries.
		The FBI's vaunted crime lab is a scandal of atrocious forensic science.
		James Ellroy by Patrick Quinn Ellroy, the author of major crime novels such as L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia and his non-fiction account of his search for his mother's killer, My Dark Places, is a fascinating story himself.
	www.crimemagazine.com /crime.htm (585 words)

	Crime fiction in The Netherlands, a short history - by Jan C. Roosendaal
		1931), already known as writer of sf novels, was of the opinion that crime novels should tell about criminals, so he presented a small gang of three criminals on the run.
		During the eighties the Dutch crime novel bloomed, and Ross founded The Dutch and Flemish Crime Writers Association (1986), as well as the annual award for best crime novel, called the ‘Golden Noose’ (de Gouden Strop), a tribute to Joop van den Broek, who wrote a book by that title in 1982.
		His novels are full of suspense, fear and helplessness, and give the reader a continuous feeling of uneasiness.
	www.crime.nl /dossiers/historydutchcrime.html (3485 words)

	Amazon.de: Crime Novels of the 30s and 40s: American Noir (Library of America (Hardcover)): English Books: Cornell ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These dark, evocative novels, when taken together, are a fascinating study of how words can inspire a magnificent variety of cinematic images and styles.
		This duo collect 11 of the best crime novels in which the criminal rather than the sleuth is the central character.
		Crime Novels of the 50s: American Noir (Library of America (Hardcover)) von Robert Polito
	www.amazon.de /Crime-Novels-30s-40s-Hardcover/dp/1883011469 (932 words)

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		Aspects of the plot are ironically newsworthy--the concept of stolen airplanes and crime at a Florida flight school would certainly raise eyebrows from conventional publishers today--and the plot, in typical Whittington fashion, is wildly inventive, filled with surprising twists and great action sequences.
		The novel has many of the elements of the classic noir thriller--the femme fatale, the lush wife, the hapless protagonist--and is told in seamless, breathtaking prose.
		It's almost as if the crime fiction community suffers from a collective amnesia, snapping out of it from time to time to remember a great novelist, only to forget the writer again while thousands of newer, lesser novels get into print each year.
	www.crimeculture.com /21stC/pulp_originals.html (1768 words)

	Scenes of Crime - Crime and Detective Novels
		The Hugh Corbett novel sequence, in which there are ten to date, concerns Corbett, clerk to Edward I and Keeper of the Secret Seal, who is assigned by Edward to investigate political crimes and to counter the spies of Edward's rival, Philip of France.
		Each novel is the story told by a different member of the Canterbury pilgrims, who determine to each tell a tale of mystery and terror in the evenings to counter the more famous tales during the day made famous by Chaucer.
		A somewhat predictable aspect of these novels is that Doherty seems to feel the need to link the past to the present by having the storyteller recognise one of his fellow pilgrims as a protagonist from the past.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /library/whodunnit/1/doherty.html (2101 words)

	Simenon And Great Crime Novelists \| MetaFilter
		There's a fair amount of crap in there, of course--Jeff Noon's notion of ditching the elves and spaceships springs to mind--but successful SF manages to simultaneously be a literature of Ideas and a vehicle for escapism.
		The best novels are about human emotion and human relationships, and by their very nature, crime novels find this hard to achieve.
		And crime writers have the advantage of being able to put their characters into a moral universe where their choices mean something.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/26845 (2130 words)

	Crime novels reflect moral and social issues
		Although crime stories can be fun to read, they also reflect moral and social issues, ranging from police corruption to racism, and many stand on their own merits as literature, according to Jebb.
		One of the social issues that is discussed throughout Cornwell's novels is the role of the professional woman.
		Later novels deal with her relationship with other successful women in the world of science.
	www.udel.edu /PR/UpDate/99/17/crime.html (624 words)

	Crime Magazine: An Encyclopedia of Crime
		Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity crime, serial killers, corruption, sex crimes, capital punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime books, crime films and crime studies.
		When a single crime inspires not one but three books — and that crime doesn't involve celebrities — then you have to wonder what it is about such a case that strikes such a compelling chord.
		DNA Exonerations is based on a 1996 study by the U.S. Department of Justice that details 28 cases in which men convicted of sex crimes, including murder, have been released as a result of subsequent DNA testing.
	www.crimemagazine.com (2558 words)

	Eye Weekly - Cool Summer Guide - Crime Novels - 06.18.98
		With this in mind, here are a few of my favorite crime novels to help a person survive a summer heat wave -- if not comfortably, then at least with a quickened pulse.
		The Tony is Tony Hastings, the helpless "hero" of a first novel (entitled Nocturnal Animals) by her ex-husband Edward Sheffield, which he sends to Susan out of the blue, some 15 years after their breakup.
		Edward's novel is about a mathematics professor whose wife and child are abducted in a car-jacking; Wright's is about the relationship between life and art, art and aggression.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.18.98/cool/CScrimenovels18.html (747 words)

	Jessica Speart - Crime novels that crusade
		She is the lead character in "Blue Twilight," author Jessica Speart's newest novel mixing taut mystery and ecological zeal.
		"The social novel had been kind of abandoned as a little old-fashioned and unhip." But crime novelists such as George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, she says, "have made it pretty hip" again.
		"Crime is a great way to examine a community, because crime is an event that often brings into conflict parts of a society that usually don't touch one another," says Lippman.
	www.jessicaspeart.com /newsday.html (1601 words)

	Scenes of Crime - Crime and Detective Novels
		Arguably, the real essence of a detective novel is the investigation of a puzzle by someone determined to get to the truth, and this approach might also be taken by a historian, whether investigating the motives behind a major historical event, or how people lived and behaved in societies past.
		Historical novels can also be less violent and graphic than their modern counterparts, and can offer a degree of detachment for the reader; it might be more comfortable to view a murder in medieval Southwark as less close to home than a murder in inner-city Nottingham.
		Her first novel, 'A Plague Upon Both Your Houses' is in many ways her strongest, painting a vivid picture of Cambridge's ordeal with the Black Death, but the series continues strongly, particularly when dealing with the often violent conflict between Town and Gown.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /library/whodunnit/1/historical1.html (1987 words)

	Amazon.com: Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This duo collect 11 of the best crime novels in which the criminal rather than the sleuth is the central character.
		It's comforting in a way that these novels, which were considered (and still considered by some) as trash, disposable items of consumption, are collected along with the novels of Melville, James and Hawthorne...."elevated" to high brow lit.
		This collection of novels from the 30s and 40s was terrific fun and an outstanding introduction to the genre.
	www.amazon.com /Crime-Novels-American-Postman-Nightmare/dp/1883011469 (2496 words)

	USATODAY.com - Sex, drugs and murder: Fine fodder for four new mysteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She gets the chance when a teenage girl is found murdered, and the crime scene is a mirror image of the work of a serial killer who until now has targeted aging, drug-abusing prostitutes.
		That a novel like this can be described as charming is a tribute to the team that created some very human, down-to-earth characters.
		Her new novel, The Finishing School, is equally smart and gritty and also features Melanie Vargas, a federal prosecutor who is part of an elite drug task force in Manhattan.
	usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2006-02-27-crime-novels_x.htm?csp=34 (867 words)

	Amazon.ca: Crime Novels Part 1: Books: Robert Polito (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This volume, along with it's companion, "Crime Novels: American Noir of the '50s", is perhaps the definitive collection of this genre.
		It's comforting in a way that these novels, which were considered (and still considered by some) as trash, disposable items of consumption, are collected along with the novels of Melville, James and Hawthorne...."elevated" to high brow lit.
		The Noir theme of "Crime Does Not Pay" runs through most of theses stories, but when you read them, you realize that it's not as simple as that.
	www.amazon.ca /Crime-Novels-Part-Robert-Polito/dp/1883011469 (2198 words)

	Crime through a crime writer's eyes
		Years later, I poured the remembered fear into my novel Fault Lines, in which a social worker is woken by a scuffling sound in the night and goes downstairs to investigate what she thinks must be an invasion of mice, only to discover a violent intruder.
		In many ways, crime fiction gives adults what children take from fairy tales: the reassurance that comes from seeing your worst fears acted out in the suffering of imaginary victims, whose tormentors are ultimately punished.
		Fairy tales may end with those wonderfully familiar words, 'and they all lived happily ever after', but these days a large number of adult crime novels have open endings, in which it is very clear that some criminals will escape and few victims or investigators can expect unalloyed happiness.
	www.ivillage.co.uk /newspol/camp/crime/articles/0,,185958_500032,00.html (536 words)

	Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: Literary crime, or just plain slumming?
		Ian McEwan's written several novels that are essentially crime novels (although admittedly they haven't been styled as such), and they're more Rendell-psychologicals than Rankin-type procedurals, but his prose is very spare indeed.
		Good crime fiction is like nothing else, visceral and cerebral in equal measure, and literary writers should think long and hard before attemtping to toss one off.
		Now this is exactly what a horror novel should be: beautiful, suspenseful writing; a sense of foreboding from the beginning that only increases as the story goes on; and well-crafted characters, from the doomed Susan Marley and all who fall under her tainted spell.
	www.sarahweinman.com /confessions/2004/08/literary_crime_.html (2800 words)

	Macleans.ca \| Culture \| Books \| It's a mystery to me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It all sounded as though his next novel, should he find a publisher, is liable to feature nuke-wielding Amish terrorists from Ohio.
		Booth argued anything could be discussed in a crime novel, as long as it was character-driven: "If readers believe in your characters, they'll follow you anywhere." True, echoed Rice, but a sense of place was equally vital.
		The crime genre is biased towards series, towards casting a new set of ephemeral variables (the crime) against the same backdrop of character and place, cementing Rice's "intersection" over and over in readers' imaginations.
	www.macleans.ca /culture/books/article.jsp?content=20041022_145853_4608 (875 words)

	Classic Crime Novels:
		Dannay largely plotted the Queen novels, and most of the writing was done by Lee.
		EQ's The Greek Coffin Mystery is notable for its four separate solutions, that gradually emerge at the four separate climaxes of the novel, one at the end of each major section.
		Berkeley seems most interested in writing an anti-detective story, showing how each situation can be twisted to express a multitude of interpretations, mocking the idea of detective stories in general, and the ability to understand anything through reason.
	www.topmystery.com /ElleryQueen_GreecCoffin.htm (403 words)

	The Essentials: Crime Novels - July 6, 2005 - The New York Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When the focus is on a robbery, a caper, or some other illegal activity, and not on anyone whose job it is to solve or prevent it, the book is clearly a crime novel.
		Detective fiction has stringent moral values and tends to be philosophically conservative; crime fiction tends to be radical, or at least anti-establishment.
		A rich history of crime fiction persists through the ages from "Oedipus Rex" to "Macbeth" to almost all the major works of Charles Dickens.
	www.nysun.com /article/16524 (735 words)

	CrimeFictFrameset-2.html
		This section of Crimeculture.com aims eventually to include introductions to all aspects of crime fiction, from the Victorian detective novel to the contemporary graphic novel.
		There are editorial supplements on James Ellroy's LA Quartet, on fl protest in mid-century crime writing and on femmes fatales in the hard-boiled thrillers of the 1950s.
		An introduction to the growth of hard-boiled crime fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, with a brief discussion of the historical background and sections on Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Horace McCoy, James M. Cain, W.R. Burnett and Paul Cain.
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/CrimeFictFrameset-2.html (591 words)

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