Victoria Margree is Principal Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of BrightonDaniel Orrells is Reader in Ancient Literature and Its Reception at King's College LondonMinna Vuohelainen is Lecturer in English at City, University of London

• 1 Introduction – Victoria Margree, Daniel Orrells and Minna VuohelainenPart I: Richard Marsh and topical discourses of crime2 Tall tales and true: Richard Marsh and late-Victorian journalism – Nick Freeman3 Mrs Musgrave’s stain of madness: Marsh and the female offender – Johan Höglund4 ‘The most dangerous thing in England’? Detection, deviance and disability in Richard Marsh’s Judith Lee stories – Minna VuohelainenPart II: Richard Marsh, masculinity and money5 Speculative society, risk and the crime thriller: The Datchet Diamonds – Victoria Margree6 ‘The crowd would have it that I was a hero’: populism, New Humour and the male clerk in Marsh’s Sam Briggs adventures – Mackenzie BartlettPart III: Richard Marsh and the imperial Gothic7 ‘In that Egyptian den’: situating The Beetle within the fin-de-siècle fiction of Gothic Egypt – Ailise Bulfin8 Automata, plot machinery and the imperial Gothic in Richard Marsh’s The Goddess – Neil HultgrenPart IV: Richard Marsh and object relations9 ‘Something was going from me – the capacity, as it were, to be myself’: ‘transformational objects’ and the Gothic fiction of Richard Marsh – Graeme Pedlingham10 Decadent aesthetics and Richard Marsh’s The Mystery of Philip Bennion’s Death – Daniel Orrells11 ‘Something on which you may exercise your ingenuity’: diamonds and curious collectables in the fin-de-siècle fiction of Richard Marsh – Jessica AllsopIndex