The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across 45 original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, Approaches , rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II, Devices , examines the textual characteristics of crime