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This essay collection examines the changing cultural, political and physical landscape of Spain as represented in Spanish crime fiction of the last three decades. The first several essays focus on crime fiction set in Barcelona and look at, among other topics, the symbiotic relationship between the city and the detective in Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma's long-running Inspector Mendez series, Manuel Vazquez Montalban's treatments of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, and place and identity in Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett's Petra Delicado series. Other essays examine regional and cultural illiteracy in Jorge Martinez Reverte's Galvez series and Spain's changing urban centers as represented in Andreu Martin's El blues de la semana mas negra.
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Introduction
Renée W. Craig-Odders
1. Detecting 1979 Barcelona: The Cases versus the Context in El misterio de la cripta embrujada, Los mares del Sur, and A la vejez navajazos
Kalen R. Oswald
2. Barcelona: "La gran novela negra" in Francisco González Ledesma's Inspector Méndez Series
Renée W. Craig-Odders
3. Barcelona Through the Tourist's Gaze: The 1992 Olympics as a Pseudo-Event in Two Novels by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Michelle Dumais
4. There's No Place Like Homelessness in Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Un barco cargado de arroz
Nina L. Molinaro
5. After Eden: Images of the Garden in Alicia Giménez-Bartlett's Petra Delicado Series
Marcie Paul
6. "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us (?)": Regional and Social Tensions in Two Novels by Lola van Guardia/Isabel Franc
Jacky Collins
7. Spanish Crime Fiction and Madrid: Moving Up, Looking Back
David Knutson
8. Remembering Madrid in the Fiction of Joaquín Leguina and Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Anne L. Walsh
9. Urban Renewal and Mobbing Inmobilario in Andreu Martín's El blues de la semana más negra
Tiffany Gagliardi Trotman
10. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Regional and Cultural Illiteracy in Two of Jorge Martínez Reverte's Gálvez Series Novels
Jeffrey Oxford
11. Woman on the Road: A New Look at Bilbao's Urban Landscape in Itxaro Borda's Ezpeldoi Series
Javier Cillero Goiriastuena
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