The Postcolonial Detective

What happens to detective fiction when the detective is "post colonial", a marginalized native or settler in a country recovering from colonialism?

Post colonial detection is a hybrid of western influenced police methods and plot conventions, and indigenous cultural insights and wisdom in exotic settings.

An introduction to the peculiarities of the post colonial detective and to post colonial theory establishes a context in which to view more than a dozen notable detectives and authors from around the world.