Scandinavian Crime Fiction

ISBN-10: 0708323308
ISBN-13: 9780708323304
Series: Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Category: Crime in literature
Pages: 194
Language: English
Published: 2011
Publisher: European Crime Fictions
Authors: Andrew K. Nestingen, Paula Arvas

Description

Crime writers from the Nordic countries have become some of the most widely read authors of the 1990s and 2000s. As the first study in English of Nordic crime fiction, this book spells out the context into which the genre fits through articles on the history, aesthetics, and film and television adaptation of Nordic crime fiction.

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