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Irish crime fiction, long present on international bestseller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade. With a wide range of scholars addressing some of the most essential Irish detective writing, Guilt Rules All confirms that this genre has arrived. The essays collected here connect their immediate subjects - contemporary Irish crime writers - to Irish culture, literature, and history. Anchored in both canonical and emerging themes, this collection draws on established Irish studies discussions while emphasizing what is new and distinct about Irish crime fiction.
Guilt Rules All considers best-sellers like Adrian McKinty and Liz Nugent, as well as other significant writers whose work may fall outside of traditional notions of Irish literature or crime fiction. The essays consider a range of themes - among them globalization, women and violence, and the Troubles - across settings and time frames, allowing readers to trace the patterns that play a meaningful role in this developing genre.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Antecedents and Beginnings
1. "Just One More Thing: Freeman Wills Crofts's and the Inverted Mystery"
2. "Before the Tiger Roared: Bartholomew Gill's Ireland"
3."'Make us human': Julie Parson's Michael McLoughlin Trilogy"
4. "'A land of shame, a land of murder and a land of strange, sacrificial women': Representation of Wealth, Gender, and Race in Irish Language Crime Fiction in Irish"
Historical Crime Fiction
5. "Hospitality and Surveillance: Imperial Crime in Conor Brady's Victorian Dublin"
6. "How History Helps: Michael Russell's Irish Thrillers"
Novelists and Readers
7. "Ren Bryce: Hiding in Plain Sight"
8. "The Ties that Bind: Arlene Hunt's QuicK Investigations"
9. "The Touch: Steve Cavanagh's Eddie Flynn Series"
Adapting Hard-Boiled Models
10. "Troubling the Genre: Declan Burke's Harry Rigby Novels"
11. "'A Spanner in the Works': Metaphysical Detection in Colin Bateman's Dan Starkey Series"
12. "'This Isn't Fucking Miss Marple, Mate': Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy"
13. "The Radical and the Unrepresentable in Gene Kerrigan's Dublin Tetralogy"
Domestic Noir
14. "Serial Domestic Noir: Louise Phillip's Kate Pearson Series"
15. "Searching for the Missing, Haunted by the Troubles: Claire McGowan's Paula Maguire"
16. "More than Domestic: Toward a Theory of Maternal Noir"
17. "Between the Lines: Liz Nugent's Malignant Protagonists"
Index