Once upon a crime: homicide in American culture and popular children's literature from "Bluebeard" to Harry Potter
"You must kill her and bring me her lungs and liver as proof": "Snow White" and the fact as well as fantasy of filicide
"The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties... 'off with his head!' ": Alice's adventures in Wonderland and the anti-gallows movement
"Swarthy, sun-tanned, villainous looking fellows": Tarzan of the apes and criminal anthropology
"A sixth sense seemed to tell her that she had encountered something unusual": psychic sleuthing in the Nancy Drew mystery series
"How'd you like that haircut to begin just below the chin?": juvenile delinquency, teenager killers and a pulp aesthetic in the Outsiders
"My job is... to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury": confronting the dramatization-and demonization-of murder in Walter Dean Myers' monster
Epilogue: "Just because you don't have a pulse doesn't mean you can't be perky": my so-called death, young adult zombie fiction and murder in the posthuman age.
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Bloody murder : the homicide tradition in children's literature by Michelle Ann Abate. ISBN 9781421408408. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
