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Humanities & Social Sciences, The Arts & Literature

Crime Fiction and the City: The Rise of a Global Urban Genre

Dr Bill Phillips, Senior Lecturer in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Barcelona, Catalonia, writes about the association of crime fiction with the city and the rise of particular kind of protagonist, the hard-boiled detective.

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