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The  Foreign in International Crime FictionTranscultural RepresentationsDescription‘The foreigner’ is a familiar character in popular crime  fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a  unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic  portrayal of the criminal ‘other’. Exploring popular crime fiction from  across the world, The Foreign in International Crime Writing examines  these popular works as ‘transcultural contact zones’ in which writers  can tackle such issues as national identity, immigration, globalization  and diaspora communities. Offering readings of 20th and 21st century  crime writing from Norway, the UK, India, China, Europe and Australasia,  the essays in this book open up new directions for scholarship on crime  writing and transnational literatures.Table of ContentsContributors  Introduction  Part 1: Inside Out or Outside In? The Scene of the Crime as Exotic Décor  Chapter 1: Cannibalistic Maori Behead Rupert Murdoch: (Mis)representations of Antipodean Otherness in Caryl Férey’s ‘Maori Thrillers Ellen Carter and Deborah Walker  Chapter 2: ‘A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world’: Britishness and Foreignness in le Carré’s Karla Trilogy Sabine Vanacker  Chapter 3: Havana Noir: Time, Place and the Appropriation of Cuba in Crime Fiction Philip Swanson  Chapter 4: Shanghai, Shanghai: Placing Qiu Xiaolong’s Crime Fiction in the Landscape of Globalized Literature Hui Luo  Chapter 5: Seeing Double: Representing Others in the Franco-Pacific Thriller Jean Anderson  Part 2: Private Eyes, Hybrid Eyes: The In-Between Detective  Chapter 6: ‘Don’t Forget the Tejedor’: Community and Identity in the Crime Fiction of Rosa Ribas Stewart King  Chapter 7: An American in Paris or Opposites Attract: Dominique Sylvain’s ‘In-Between’Bicultural Detective Stories France Grenaudier-Klijn  Chapter 8: Arthur Upfield and Philip McLaren: Pioneering Partners in Australian Ethnographic Crime Fiction John and Marie Ramsland  Chapter 9: From Wolf to Wolf-Man: Foreignness and Self-Alterity in Fred Vargas’s L’Homme à l’envers Alistair Rolls Chapter 10: Others Knowing Others: Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and Peter Høeg’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow Andrew Nestingen and Paula Arvas  Chapter 11: Smog, Tweed and Foreign Bedevilment: Bourland’s Twenty-First-Century Remake of the Sherlock Holmes Crime Story Keren Chiaroni  Part 3: When Evil Walks Abroad – Towards a Politics of Otherness   Chapter 12: ‘The Meanest Devil of the Pit’: British Representations of the German Character in Edwardian Juvenile Spy Fiction, 1900–1914 Andrew Francis  Chapter 13. Reading Others: Foreigners and the Foreign in Roberto Arlt’s Detective Fiction Carolina Miranda  Chapter 14: Who is the Foreigner? The Representation of the Migrant in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction Barbara Pezzotti  Chapter 15: Images of Turks in Recent German Crime Fiction: A Comparative Study in Xenophobia Margaret Sutherland  16. The Representation of Chinese Characters in Leonardo Padura’s La cola de la serpiente (2000): Sinophobia or Sinophilia? Carlos Uxó  Bibliography  IndexAuthor(s)Jean Anderson,  Jean Anderson is Associate Professor at Victoria University of  Wellington, New Zealand and Director of the New Zealand Centre for  Literary Translation. She is the Editor of The New Zealand Journal of French Studies.Barbara Pezzotti, Barbara Pezzotti is Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.Carolina Miranda,Carolina Miranda is Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.