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Overview: The sprawling urban streets provided a multiplicity of settings from Dickens’s rookeries to the decayed yet aristocratic Fauborg Saint-Germain, home to Poe’s creation, Auguste Dupin. Anonymous and alone amongst a transient population, a criminal could go undetected, even hide behind new identities. This was also true of the urban detective. The Parisian police-chief Eugène-François
Vidocq, often referred to as ‘the first detective’, was one who confidently slipped between criminality and legality. Sherlock Holmes, too, became famous for his disguises, allowing him to move undetected on the city streets. This brings us to an aspect of the urban space that crime fiction utilizes so well: the duality inherent in this city space, one where boundaries are crossed, even blurred. A city can provide a centre of authority alongside a ‘seedy underbelly’. Criminals and police
rub shoulders while corruption spreads its malign influence to those in authority, exemplified in the twentieth-century crime novels of Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, both of whom use Los Angeles as a setting. Still, unlike their rural counterparts, cities are in a constant state of flux through decay and regeneration and many crime writers find themselves acting as literary cartographers of an authentic but rapidly changing urban space.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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