Alistair Rolls & Rachel Franks 
Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator [EPUB ebook] 

The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade – the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets – to Agatha Christie’s Captain Hastings – the genteel companion in greener surrounds – the P. I. has taken on any number of guises. In
Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator, editors Alistair Rolls and Rachel Franks dive deep into crime literature and culture, challenging many of the assumptions we make about the hardy P. I.



Assembling a cast of notable crime fiction experts, including Stephen Knight and Carolyn Beasley, the book covers characters from the whole world of international noir – Giorgio Scerbanenco’s Duca Lambert, Léo Malet’s Nestor Burma and many more. Including essays on the genealogy and emergence of the protagonist in nineteenth-century fiction; interviews with crime writers Leigh Redhead, Nick Quantrill and Fernando Lalana; and analyses of the transatlantic exchanges that helped to develop public perception of a literary icon,
Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator will redefine what we think we know about the figure of the P. I.



Rolls and Franks have engaged here the tension between the popular and scholarly that is inherent in any critical examination of a literary type, along the way unraveling the mystery of the alluring, enigmatic private investigator.
Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator will be a handy companion for any crime fiction fan.

Table of Content

Acknowledgments

Editors’ Introduction

Case Studies

Interrogations

Reports

Contributor Biographies

About the author

Rachel Franks is the coordinator, education and scholarship at the State Library of New South Wales, a conjoint fellow at the University of Newcastle and is at The University of Sydney researching true crime. Rachel holds a Ph.D. in Australian crime fiction and her research on crime fiction, true crime, popular culture and information science has been presented at numerous conferences. An award-winning writer, her work can be found in a wide variety of books, journals and magazines as well as on social media.