new german critique 100 vol 34 no 1 winter 2007 pp. 165-187
"depicting the city as a place of danger and adventure, it [the detective novel] played with the fears and anxieties of bourgeois society, which like to indulge in the feeling of an ideological terror. it has also romantacized the dull existence of the city dweller and rescued the sense of individuality and singularity that modrnity has lost in the labyrinth of the crowd:. p. 184
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