TY - BOOK AU - Pepper,Andrew TI - The contemporary American crime novel: race, ethnicity, gender, class SN - 9780748613403 (paperback) AV - PS374.D4 P47 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Detective and mystery stories, American KW - History and criticism KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Steering an informed course between the dogmas of left-wing political correctness and right-wing jingoism, this book is an engaging and accessible attempt to provide a new reading that explores the genre's popularity and its complexities ER -