... of crime fiction in Russia. Crime fiction takes up the ideological challenge of why individuals transgress the boundaries established by the society of which they are members. The emphasis on the why rather than the who, the greater interest in the motive rather than in an identity that must be uncovered...

..., and no closure that can make sense of the crime. This crime fiction drew from the fatalism that characterizes much of Russian culture, undermining the potential for liberalism's self-actualizing individual. Thus, this genre supplied both the causes and effects of postrevolutionary instability. Dobryi Roman R L...

...This chapter addresses the complex ways in which dust, as well as sand, figures in the modernist crime fiction of Friedrich Glauser, where these fine particles of matter are ubiquitous, raising critical questions about the role of particulate matter as evidence and how such seemingly trivial matter...

... trials to the burgeoning literary genre of crime fiction and fruitfully compares the Russian case to examples of crimes both from Western Europe and the United States in this period....