The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction

by Susannah B. Mintz

Overview

The first book of its kind, The Disabled Detective explores representations of disability in crime fiction, from the earliest days of the genre to contemporary television drama. Susannah B. Mintz examines detective heroes with such conditions as blindness, deafness, paralysis, Asperger's, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction, war trauma and many other impairments. Examining a wide range of texts, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and the works of Agatha Christie to contemporary crime writers such as Jeffrey Deaver and Michael Collins and television dramas such as Monk, this book highlights how often characters with disabilities have been the heroes of crime fiction and how rarely this has been discussed in contemporary criticism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474238236
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/19/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	520 KB

About the Author

Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College, USA. She is the author of Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities (2007) and Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body (Bloomsbury, 2013).
Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. She is author of Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities, The Disabled Detective and is co-editor of a critical volume on the essayist Nancy Mairs.

Table of Contents

1. introduction: sleuthing disability 1
2. seer detectives 29
3. deafness and the penetrating detective 70
4. the crip sleuths 111
5. the missing arm of the law 151
6. detection and the mind's private eye 191
7. epilogue 231
works cited 234