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BL
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967696
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b722066
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| Main Entry
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Peach, Linden,1951-
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| Title & Author
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Masquerade, crime and fiction : : criminal deceptions /\ Linden Peach.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke [England] ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2006.
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| Series Statement
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Crime files series
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xviii, 184 pages ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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0230006582
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: 9780230006584
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180) and index.
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| Contents
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Mocking modernity -- Gender and performance in the criminal masquerade -- The cadaver as criminalised text -- Where does that criminality come from? Writing women and crime -- Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Sara Paretsky : the new woman -- Masquerade, criminality and desire in Toni Morrison's Love -- Writing the serial and callous killer into (post) modernity.
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| Abstract
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"Focusing upon the surprisingly neglected area of the criminal as a 'performer', Masquerade, Crime and Fiction offers a new framework within which to read literary and popular fiction about crime and criminality."--Jacket.
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Crime in literature.
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Detective and mystery stories, American-- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories, English-- History and criticism.
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Masquerades in literature.
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Popular literature-- English-speaking countries-- History and criticism.
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Amerikanska deckare-- historia.
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Brott i litteraturen.
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Crime in literature.
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Detective and mystery stories, American.
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Detective and mystery stories, English.
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Engelska deckare-- historia.
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Maskerader i litteraturen.
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Masquerades in literature.
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Popular literature.
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Populärlitteratur-- historia.
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English-speaking countries.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.087209
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| LC Classification
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PR830.D4P385 2006
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