Isn't Justice Always Unfair? explores the uncommonly long and
uncommonly rich relationship between the fictional detective and his
or her South. It begins with the New Orleans expatriate, Legrand,
uncovering Captain Kidd's treasure on an island off Charleston, South
Carolina; it covers the satires and parodies of Mark Twain and the
polished stories of Melville Davisson Post and Irvin S. Cobb; and it
concludes with surveys of the many good and excellent writers who are
using the form of the detective story to compose inquiries into the
character of life in the South today. At the center of Isn't Justice
Always Unfair? lies an analysis of a most remarkable phenomenon:
William Faulkner's exploitation of the genre as an avenue into his
postage stamp of Southern experience, Yoknapatawpha County.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Of Detectives, Authors, and Their Souths -- 1. Planting
the Genre on Sullivan's Island: Edgar Allan Poe -- 2. Pudd'nheaded
Detection Along the Mississippi: Mark Twain -- 3. Pillars of Society:
Detectives in the Works of Melville Davisson Post and Irvin S. Cobb
-- 4. Gavin Stevens: William Faulkner's Practical Idealist -- 5.
Stretching Generic Boundaries: Walker Percy, Truman Capote, and
Michael Malone -- 6. New Orleans Detectives - Hard-boiled Gumbo: The
Corringtons, James Lee Burke, Julie Smith, James Sallis -- 7. The
Corpse in the Country: Sharyn McCrumb, Patricia Cornwell, Stuart
Woods, David Stout, Joan Hess, Margaret Maron, Kathy Hogan Trocheck,
Rita Mae Brown -- 8. Miami Detectives - The South Unsouthed: Brett
Halliday, John D. MacDonald, Elmore Leonard, Charles Willeford, Carl
Hiaasen.
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