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Article: The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
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- November 1, 2006
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The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction, ed. Martin Priestman (Cambridge University Press, 2003), ISBN: 0-521-00871-9, pp. xvii, 287, £16.00 pb.
Producing a Cambridge Companion to crime fiction cannot have been an easy task. In a genre as extensive, and with boundaries as blurred, as that of crime (or detection, or mystery) fiction, the issues of what to include, where to start and how to end must have seemed daunting indeed. Given the size of the subject, convincing cases could have been made for separate Cambridge Companions to nineteenth- and twentieth-century crime, or for companion volumes on British, European and American crime fiction.Martin Priestman's edition, however, has only ...