A companion to crime fiction

 Content: From The Newgate calendar to Sherlock Holmes / Heather Worthington --
 From Sherlock Holmes to the present / Lee Horsley --
 Criticism and theory / Heta Pyrhonen --
 Crime and the mass media / Alain Silver, James Ursini --
 Crime fiction and the literary canon / Joel Black --
 The Newgate novel and the police casebook / Lauren Gillingham --
 From sensation to the Strand / Christopher Pittard --
 The "classical" model of the golden age / Susan Rowland --
 Early American crime fiction : origins to urban gothic / Alexander Moudrov --
 The "hard-boiled" genre / Andrew Pepper --
 The pursuit of crime : characters in crime fiction / Carl Malmgren --
 Crime, forensics, and modern science / Sarah Dauncey --
 The police novel / Peter Messent --
 Noir and the psycho-thriller / Philip Simpson --
 True crime / David Schmid --
 Gangs and mobs / Jonathan Munby --
 Historical crime and detection / Ray B. Browne --
 Crime and the spy genre / David Seed --
 Crime and the gothic / Catherine Spooner --
 Feminist crime fiction and female sleuths / Adrienne Gavin --
 African-American detection and crime fiction / Frankie Bailey --
 Ethnic postcolonial crime and detection (Anglophone) / Ed Christian --
 Crime writing in other languages / Sue Neale --
 Postmodern and metaphysical detection / Patricia Merivale --
 Crime and detective literature for young readers / Christopher Routledge --
 Crime in comics and the graphic novel / Arthur Fried --
 Criminal investigation on film / Philippa Gates --
 William Godwin (1756-1836) / Philip Shaw --
 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) / Maurice Lee --
 Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) / Andrew Mangham --
 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) / John Hodgson --
 Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) / Leroy Panek --
 Agatha Christie (1890-1976) / Merja Makinen --
 James M. Cain (1892-1977) / William Marling --
 Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) / Esme Miskimmin --
 Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) / Jasmine Hall --
 Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) / Alicia Borinsky --
 Chester Himes (1909-1984) / Stephen Soitos --
 David Goodis (1917-1967) / David Schmid --
 P.D. James (1920- ) / Louise Harrington --
 Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) / Bran Nicol --
 Elmore Leonard (1925- ) / Charles J. Rzepka --
 Sara Paretsky (1947- ) / Malcah Effron --
 Walter Mosley (1952- ) / John Gruesser --
 Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) / Nick Haeffner --
 Martin Scorsese (1942- ) / Mark Desmond Nicholls --
 John Woo (1946- ) / Karen Fang.