Crime Scene Spain: Essays on Post-Franco Crime Fiction Book

Introduction Renée W. Craig-Odders 1

1 Detecting 1979 Barcelona: The Cases versus the Context in El misterio de la cripta embrujada, Los Mares del Sur, and A la vejez navajazos Kalen R. Oswald 11

2 Barcelona: "La gran novela negra" in Francisco González Ledesma's Inspector Méndez Series Renée W. Craig-Odders 34

3 Barcelona Through the Tourist's Gaze: The 1992 Olympics as a Pseudo-Event in Two Novels by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Michelle Dumais 53

4 There's No Place Like Homelessness in Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Un barco cargado de arroz Nina L. Molinaro 74

5 After Eden: Images of the Garden in Alicia Giménez-Bartlett's Petra Delicado Series Marcie Paul 93

6 "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us (?)": Regional and Social Tensions in Two Novels by Lola van Guardia/Isabel Franc Jacky Collins 118

7 Spanish Crime Fiction and Madrid: Moving Up, Looking Back David Knutson 133

8 Remembering Madrid in the Fiction of Joaquín Leguina and Arturo Pérez-Reverte Anne L. Walsh 146

9 Urban Renewal and Mobbing Inmobilario in Andreu Martín's El blues de la semana más negra Tiffany Gagliardi Trotman 166

10 The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Regional and Cultural Illiteracy in Two of Jorge Martínez Reverte's Gálvez Series Novels Jeffrey Oxford 185

11 Woman on the Road: A New Look at Bilbao's Urban Landscape in Itxaro Borda's Ezpeldoi Series Javier Cillero Goiriastuena 204

About the Contributors 227

Index 231