The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel

Irish detective fiction has enjoyed an international readership for over a decade, appearing on best-seller lists across the globe. But its breadth of hard-boiled and amateur detectives, historical fiction, and police procedurals has remained somewhat mar

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Elizabeth Mannion

Gene

ral E ditor :

Clive Bloom

Crime Files Series Editor Clive Bloom Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies Middlesex University  London

Since its invention in the nineteenth century, detective fiction has never been more popular. In novels, short stories, films, radio, television and now in computer games, private detectives and psychopaths, poisoners and overworked cops, tommy gun gangsters and cocaine criminals are the very stuff of modern imagination, and their creators one mainstay of popular consciousness. Crime Files is a ground-breaking series offering scholars, students and discerning readers a comprehensive set of guides to the world of crime and detective fiction. Every aspect of crime writing, detective fiction, gangster movie, true-crime exposé, police procedural and post-colonial investigation is explored through clear and informative texts offering comprehensive coverage and theoretical sophistication.

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The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel

Editor Elizabeth Mannion Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Crime Files ISBN 978-1-137-53939-7 ISBN 978-1-137-53940-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53940-3

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This volume coalesced in the summer of 2014 at University College Dublin, where many of us gathered for the joint meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies and the Canadian Association for Irish Studies. Our thanks to the organiz