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Traces, codes, and clues : reading race in crime fiction

This text explores the ways in which crime fiction manipulates cultural constructions such as race and gender to inscribe dominant cultural discourses. It notes that even those writers who set out to revise conventions repeatedly produce some of the genre's most conservative elements
Print Book, English, 2003
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., 2003