By exploring the transcultural nature of Mediterranean crime fiction, Barbara Pezzotti advocates for a regional 'reading' of the genre.

The first systematic account of crime fiction as a global genre, offering unprecedented coverage of distinct traditions across the world.

For a long time, crime fiction has been considered popular literature - an assessment that prevented serious critical engagement with it. It is only in recent y

This book is a critical study of the translation and adaptation of popular fiction into Arabic at the turn of the twentieth century. It examines the ways in whi