Across the Curriculum with Detective Fiction for Young People and Adults

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.02.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. Strategies and Activities
  4. Conclusion
  5. Works Cited
  6. Bibliography

Beyond Criminal Justice: Investigating Social Issues through Detective Fiction

Laura Viviana Sturgeon

Published September 2007

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Bibliography

Secondary Sources for Teachers

Benstock, Bernard, ed. Essays in Detective Fiction. London: The MacMillan Press,

1983.

Chernaik, Warren, Martin Swales, and Robert Vilain, eds. The Art of Detective Fiction.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea and Monica Mueller, eds. Sleuthing Ethnicity:

The Detective in Multiethnic Crime Fiction. Associated University Presses: Rosemont Publishing and Printing Corp, 2003.

Irons, Glenwood, ed. Feminism and Detective Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto

Press, 1995.

Priestman, Martin. Detective Fiction and Literature: The Figure on the Carpet. London:

The MacMillan Press, 1990.

A highly recommended, erudite overview of the detective genre

Reddy, Maureen T. Sisters in Crime: Feminism and The Crime Novel. New York:

Continuum, 1988.

Rzpeka, Charles J. Detective Fiction. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005.

Soitos, Stephen F. Blues Detective: A Study of African-American Detective Fiction.

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

Novels

Corpi, Lucha. Eulogy for a Brown Angel. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1992.

————— Black Widow's Wardrobe. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1999.

Corpi's protagonist is Chicana detective Gloria Damasco

Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina. A Miracle in Paradise. New York: Avon, 1999.

A mystery novel featuring Cuban-American private investigator Lupe Solano

Hammett, Dashiell. Red Harvest. London: Orion Books, 2003.

Hillerman, Tony. The Dark Wind. New York: HarperTorch, 1982.

An excellent novel for readers interested in Navajo and Hopi spiritual practices

—————— The Sinister Pig. New York: HarperTorch, 2003.

A more overtly political novel than many of Hillerman's other works

—————— A Thief of Time. New York: HarperTorch, 1988.

Kellerman, Faye. Sanctuary. New York: Avon, 1994.

Kellerman incorporates Jewish beliefs and traditions into this novel

McCrumb, Sharyn. If I Killed Him When I Met Him. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.

Mosley, Walter. Devil in a Blue Dress. New York: Washington Square Press, 1990.

Neely, Barbara. Blanche Among the Talented Tenth. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.

—————— Blanche on the Lam. New York: Penguin Books, 1992

Short Story Collections

Chandler, Raymond. Collected Stories. Introduced by John Bayley. New York:

Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Conan Doyle, Arthur. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories; Volume I.

New York: Bantam Classic, 1986

Sayers, Dorothy L. Lord Peter: A Collection of all the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories.

Compiled and Introduced by James Sandoe. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

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