Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Crime Fiction

by Kamil Naicker

At once disturbing and perversely comforting, the crime novel has historically been used to curtail social anxieties through the 'open and shut case' of its narrative form. But what happens to that form in a world where guilt and innocence cannot be so easily assigned? Return to the Scene of the Crime takes on the trope of the investigator who returns to the postcolony on a quest for knowledge. In tandem with solving the case, they must also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1869144805
• ISBN13: 9781869144807
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
• Length: 200 Pages