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- Title
Soft border, Soft-boiled: Cultural and Environmental Crime in Howard Engel's Niagara Frontier Detective Novels.
- Authors
Jones, Manina
- Abstract
This paper reads Howard Engel's novels Murder on Location (1982) and Dead and Buried (1990) through border theory and as a form of border theory. Engel uses a soft-boiled comic Canadian variant of the hard-boiled American detective novel to explore sites, situations, and symbols of national sovereignty and examine cross-border cultural and ecological flows across the 'soft border' between Canada and the United States along the Niagara frontier, where Engel sets his Benny Cooperman series (1980–2018).
- Publication
Crime Fiction Studies, 2023, Vol 4, Issue 2, p227
- ISSN
2517-7982
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/cfs.2023.0100