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Chapter 16 - Unusual Suspects

American Crimes, Metaphysical Detectives, Postmodernist Genres

from Part V - Postmodernist Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2017

By
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Edited by
Chris Raczkowski
Chris Raczkowski
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University of South Alabama
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A History of American Crime Fiction , pp. 221 - 235
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Print publication year: 2017

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