Crime Scenes

Contents: Thomas Anessi: Literary Codes of Conduct in PRL Crime Fiction: Baranczak, Joe Alex and the Powiesc Milicyjna - Nina Holst: "Way too meta": Readers, Writers and Transmedia in Castle - Nina Muzdeka: A Pothead Detective Challenging the Genre: Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice - Elzbieta Perkowska-Gawlik: The Quest for Identity in Academic Mystery Fiction - Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish: Tartan Noir: Crime, Scotland and Genre in Ian Rankin's Rebus Novels - Stephen Butler: Banville, Simenon, Stark - An Existential Ménage à Trois - Wolfgang Görtschacher: Constructions of Identity and Intertextuality in Martha Grimes's The Black Cat - Aysegül Kesirli Unur: Cingöz Recai at Work: A Study on Early Turkish Crime Fiction on Film - Arkadiusz Misztal: LSD Investigations: The End of Groovy Times and California Noir in Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon - Monika Rajtak: Investigating Evil: Crime Fiction Remodelled in When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro - Monika Szuba: Bloody Typical: Genre, Intertextuality, and the Gaze in The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh - Jørgen Veisland: Whose Letter? Possession, Position and Detection in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter" - Jadwiga Wegrodzka: The Detective as Reader: Narration and Interpretation in Arthur Conan Doyle's Detective Stories - Marta Aleksandrowicz-Wojtyna: Crime Fiction in South Africa? Nadine Gordimer's Rendition of Crime in "Country Lovers" and "Town Lovers" - Bernd-Peter Lange: South Asian Sleuths: Colonial, Postcolonial, Cosmopolitan - Dorota Babilas: Her Majesty's Own Murderer? Queen Victoria and Jack the Ripper in Popular Fiction - Rachel Franks: Gender and Genre: Changes in "Women's Work" in Australian Crime Fiction - Marie Hologa: "Snort for Caledonia" - Drugs, Masculinity and National Identity in Contemporary Scottish Detective Fiction - Miriam Loth: "...the abyss gazes also into you" - Guilt and Innocence in British Golden Age Detective Fiction and Contemporary Crime Novels - Jacqui Miller: An American in

Urszula Elias studied English Literature at the University of Gdansk (Poland). Her research interests include British lesbian literature and Victorian women fiction (especially the issue of «New Womanhood»). Currently she is working on George Egerton's collections of short stories.
Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish is a member of the Scottish Studies Research Group at the University of Gdansk (Poland). Her research interests include Scottish literature, Gothic and crime fiction, especially «Tartan Noir» and Ian Rankin.