A Companion to Crime Fiction / Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture (PDF)

List of Figures. 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

Charles 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),
and Essays, Inventions, Interventions (2010).

Lee Horsley is Reader in Literature and Culture at
Lancaster University, where she teaches 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).

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