100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writ

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 f

This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber sho

James Ellroy's identity as a crime writer is rooted in his extraordinary life story and relationship with his home city of Los Angeles. Beginning with the unsol

International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime ficti