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List of contents
List of Figures ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction: What is Crime Fiction? 1
Charles J. Rzepka Part I History, Criticism, Culture 11 1 From
The Newgate Calendar to Sherlock Holmes 13
Heather Worthington 2 From Sherlock Holmes to the Present 28
Lee Horsley 3 Criticism and Theory 43
Heta Pyrhönen 4 Crime and the Mass Media 57
Alain Silver and James Ursini 5 Crime Fiction and the Literary Canon 76
Joel Black Part II Genre of a Thousand Faces 91 6 The Newgate Novel and the Police Casebook 93
Lauren Gillingham 7 From Sensation to the
Strand 105
Christopher Pittard 8 The "Classical" Model of the Golden Age 117
Susan Rowland 9 Early American Crime Fiction: Origins to Urban Gothic 128
Alexander Moudrov 10 The "Hard-boiled" Genre 140
Andrew Pepper 11 The Pursuit of Crime: Characters in Crime Fiction 152
Carl Malmgren 12 Crime, Forensics, and Modern Science 164
Sarah Dauncey 13 The Police Novel 175
Peter Messent 14 Noir and the Psycho Thriller 187
Philip Simpson 15 True Crime 198
David Schmid 16 Gangs and Mobs 210
Jonathan Munby 17 Historical Crime and Detection 222
Ray B. Browne 18 Crime and the Spy Genre 233
David Seed 19 Crime and the Gothic 245
Catherine Spooner 20 Feminist Crime Fiction and Female Sleuths 258
Adrienne E. Gavin 21 African-American Detection and Crime Fiction 270
Frankie Bailey 22 Ethnic Postcolonial Crime and Detection (Anglophone) 283
Ed Christian 23 Crime Writing in Other Languages 296
Sue Neale 24 Postmodern and Metaphysical Detection 308
Patricia Merivale 25 Crime and Detective Literature for Young Readers 321
Christopher Routledge 26 Crime in Comics and the Graphic Novel 332
Arthur Fried 27 Criminal Investigation on Film 344
Philippa Gates Part III Artists at Work 357 Fiction 359 28 William Godwin (1756-1836) 361
Philip Shaw 29 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) 369
Maurice S. Lee 30 Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) 381
Andrew Mangham 31 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) 390
John A. Hodgson 32 Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) 403
Leroy Lad Panek 33 Agatha Christie (1890-1976) 415
Merja Makinen 34 James M. Cain (1892-1977) 427
William Marling 35 Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) 438
Esme Miskimmin 36 Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) 450
Jasmine Yong Hall 37 Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) 462
Alicia Borinsky 38 Chester Himes (1909-1984) 475
Stephen Soitos 39 David Goodis (1917-1967) 487
David Schmid 40 P. D. James (1920-) 495
Louise Harrington 41 Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) 503
Bran Nicol 42 Elmore Leonard (1925-) 510
Charles J. Rzepka 43 Sara Paretsky (1947-) 523
Malcah Effron 44 Walter Mosley (1952-) 531
John Gruesser Film 539 45 Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) 541
Nick Haeffner 46 Martin Scorsese (1942-) 553
Mark Desmond Nicholls 47 John Woo (1946-) 562
Karen Fang Conclusion 570
Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley References 574
Index 599
About the author
Charles J. Rzepka is Professor of English at Boston University, where he teaches and writes on British Romanticism, popular culture, and detective and crime fiction. His publications include
The Self as Mind (1986),
Sacramental Commodities (1995),
Detective Fiction (2005),
Essays, Inventions, Interventions (2010), and most recently,
Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard (2013; pbk 2017).
Lee Horsley is a retired Reader in Literature and Culture at Lancaster University, where she taught two specialist crime courses. Her publications include
Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination (1990),
Fictions of Power in English Literature 1900-1950 (1995),
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (2005), and an expanded paperback edition of the 2001 publication
The Noir Thriller (2009).
