CRIME IN LITERATURE

Someone interested in examining the effects of crime on victims and perpetrators could do interesting research in such authors as Emile Zola, Victor Hugo, Richard Wright, Theodore Dreiser, and Nadine Gordimer. Among the themes that these writers examine are questions of the ability of law to provide justice, particularly to the poor or otherwise marginalized groups of our society.

Today detective agencies and law enforcement professionals offer assistance to authors wanting to make their fiction more believable. See The Detective Mystery Page for some tips.  For related issues see Law and Television.

Crime Fiction as Literature? Workshop at Monash University

Crime Fiction Authors

Crime Writers

Crime Writers Association of Great Britain

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls. Dime novels and penny dreadfuls were the inexpensive fiction pumped out according to various formulas by many writers of the early part of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Film Noir and Pulp Fiction

French Film Noir; Mysteries Set in France

HardBoiled

Martin's Film Noir Page

Murder Mystery Ink

1920's Interactive Literature: Gangsters, Crime and Prohibition

Officer.Com

The Pulp Page

Thrilling Detective Website

Wisdom Index: Crime

Bibliography

Cohen, Daniel, Social Injustice, Sexual Violence, Spiritual Transcendence: Constructions of Interracial Rape in Early American Crime Literature, 1767-1817, 55 William and Mary Quarterly 481 (July 1999).

No Place for a Woman: The Family in Film Noir and Other Essays