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Most readers of crime fiction1 have ‘followed’ a series: many have also at some point abandoned that series, in all likelihood to begin reading another. In print form, public library shelves provide an ever-increasing selection of serial crime novels originally written in a range of languages, made available through what is probably the busiest sector of literary translation. A glance at any television programming guide will quickly reveal that crime series in all their denominations—from private eye fiction to police procedurals,2 from whodunit to hardboiled narratives3—dominate the small screen.
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© 2015 Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda and Barbara Pezzotti
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Anderson, J., Miranda, C., Pezzotti, B. (2015). Introduction. In: Anderson, J., Miranda, C., Pezzotti, B. (eds) Serial Crime Fiction. Crime Files Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137483690_1
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