Missing White Woman Syndrome: From the History of Genre Fiction to Contemporary True Crime

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cambridge Companion to True Crime
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2026

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Missing White Woman Syndrome- From the History of Genre Fiction to Contemporary True Crime_AAM
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