Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in Ameri

A History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and historical debates

This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.

Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.

Classic American Crime Writing of the 1920s—including House Without a Key, The Benson Murder Case, The Tower Treasure, The Roman Hat Mystery, The Tower Treasu