Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: What Is Crime Fiction? (Charles J. Rzepka).

Part I History, Criticism, Culture.

1 From The Newgate Calendar to Sherlock Holmes (Heather Worthington).

2 From Sherlock Holmes to the Present (Lee Horsley).

3 Criticism and Theory (Heta Pyrhönen).

4 Crime and the Mass Media (Alain Silver and James Ursini).

5 Crime Fiction and the Literary Canon (Joel Black).

Part II Genre of a Thousand Faces.

6 The Newgate Novel and the Police Casebook (Lauren Gillingham).

7 From Sensation to the Strand (Christopher Pittard).

8 The "Classical" Model of the Golden Age (Susan Rowland).

9 Early American Crime Fiction: Origins to Urban Gothic (Alexander Moudrov).

10 The "Hard-boiled" Genre (Andrew Pepper).

11 The Pursuit of Crime: Characters in Crime Fiction (Carl Malmgren).

12 Crime, Forensics, and Modern Science (Sarah Dauncey).

13 The Police Novel (Peter Messent).

14 Noir and the Psycho Thriller (Philip Simpson).

15 True Crime (David Schmid).

16 Gangs and Mobs (Jonathan Munby).

17 Historical Crime and Detection (Ray B. Browne).

18 Crime and the Spy Genre (David Seed).

19 Crime and the Gothic (Catherine Spooner).

20 Feminist Crime Fiction and Female Sleuths (Adrienne E. Gavin).

21 African-American Detection and Crime Fiction (Frankie Bailey).

22 Ethnic Postcolonial Crime and Detection (Anglophone) (Ed Christian).

23 Crime Writing in Other Languages (Sue Neale).

24 Postmodern and Metaphysical Detection (Patricia Merivale).

25 Crime and Detective Literature for Young Readers (Christopher Routledge).

26 Crime in Comics and the Graphic Novel (Arthur Fried).

27 Criminal Investigation on Film (Philippa Gates).

Part III Artists at Work.

Fiction.

28 William Godwin (1756–1836) (Philip Shaw).

29 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) (Maurice S. Lee).

30 Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) (Andrew Mangham).

31 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) (John A. Hodgson).

32 Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) (Leroy Lad Panek).

33 Agatha Christie (1890–1976) (Merja Makinen).

34 James M. Cain (1892–1977) (William Marling).

35 Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) (Esme Miskimmin).

36 Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) (Jasmine Yong Hall).

37 Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) (Alicia Borinsky).

38 Chester Himes (1909–1984) (Stephen Soitos).

39 David Goodis (1917–1967) (David Schmid).

40 P. D. James (1920–) (Louise Harrington).

41 Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) (Bran Nicol).

42 Elmore Leonard (1925–) (Charles J. Rzepka).

43 Sara Paretsky (1947–) (Malcah Effron).

44 Walter Mosley (1952–) (John Gruesser).

Film.

45 Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) (Nick Haeffner).

46 Martin Scorsese (1942–) (Mark Desmond Nicholls).

47 John Woo (1946–) (Karen Fang).

Conclusion (Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley).

References.

Index.