SOURCE: Tani, Stefano. “The Metafictional Anti-Detective Novel.” In The Doomed Detective: The Contribution of the Detective Novel to Postmodern American and Italian Fiction, pp. 113-47. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.
In the following essay, Tani provides an overview of the metafictional anti-detective novel and reviews the major works of the sub-genre.
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