Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Place
6. 1: Vor Ort: The Functions and Early Roots of German Regional Crime Fiction 23
7. 2: Krimi Quo Vadis: Literary and Televised Trends in the German Crime Genre 41
8. 3: Plurality and Alterity in Wolf Haas’s Detective Brenner Mysteries 61
9. 4: The Case of the Austrian Regional Crime Novel 81
10. Part II. History
11. 5: “Darkness at the Beginning”: The Holocaust in Contemporary German Crime Fiction 101
12. 6: Case Histories: The Legacy of Nazi Euthanasia in Recent German Heimatkrimis 120
13. 7: “Der Fall Loest”: A Case Study of Crime Stories and the Public Sphere in the GDR 139
14. 8: What’s in Your Bag?: “Freudian Crimes” and Austria’s Nazi Past in Eva Rossmann’s Freudsche Verbrechen 155
15. Part III. Identity
16. 9: Layered Deviance: Intersexuality in Contemporary German Crime Fiction 177
17. 10: Girls in the Gay Bar: Performing and Policing Identity in Crime Fiction 200
18. 11: Eva Rossmann’s Culinary Mysteries 223
19. Works Cited 239
20. Contributors 255
21. Index 259