Crime Scene Spain

<p> This essay collection examines the changing cultural, political and physical landscape of Spain as represented in Spanish crime fiction of the last three decades. The first several essays focus on crime fiction set in Barcelona and look at, among other topics, the symbiotic relationship between the city and the detective in Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma's long-running <I>Inspector Mendez</I> series, Manuel Vazquez Montalban's treatments of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, and pl