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A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography
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
