Auteur: Knight Stephen Knight

Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers’ imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few wo …

Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers’ imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few wo …

Australian crime fiction has grown from the country’s origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistr …

Crime fiction–a product of the burgeoning metropolis of the 19th century–features specialists who identify criminals to protect an anxious citizenry. Before detectives came to play the central role …

A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which grappled w …

Starting with William Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective fiction–Poe’s Dupin stories, Conan Doyle’s The Advent …