Crime Fiction and the Law (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Investigating Crime Fiction, Maria Aristodemou, Fiona Macmillan and Patricia Tuitt 2. Mysterium non tremendum: detective fiction as a paradigm of ‘modern’ law, Peter Fitzpatrick 3. Age of Crime Fiction, Anton Schutz 4. Crime Fiction and Legal Critique: Lessons from Agatha Christie, Patricia Tuitt 5. Cortazar’s Fantomas and the Second Russell Tribunal, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 6. Suspending Democracy: Vigilante Justice and the Rule of Law in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, Chris Boge 7. Perceptions of Law and Legal Systems in African Crime Fiction, Patrick McAuslan 8. French Television Crime Fictions: the case of Spiral (Engrenages): Coming Out of the Confusion, Barbara Villez 9. Disconnected Heroines, Icy Intelligence: The Psychopathology of the Isolated Female Detective in Contemporary Scandi-Noir TV Crime Fiction, Janet McCabe 10. Is Bondurant’s The Wettest County in the World really Lawless?, Chris Boge