Contemporary Crime

myth:contemporary_crime

The crime novel became a serious literature of its own and went everywhere: Ellroy's dense, brutal Los Angeles and Mosley's Black L.A., the Nordic noir of Sjowall and Wahloo, Mankell, and Larsson that made the police novel a knife held to society, and Japan's social school, where Matsumoto Seicho rooted the mystery in poverty, corruption, and class. The detective story as the modern world's reckoning with itself. — genre history