Andrew Pepper is Senior Lecturer in English and American literature at Queen's University Belfast. He has written extensively about crime fiction over a twenty year period and is the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) and co-editor, with David Schmid, of Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Palgrave, 2016). He is also the author of five detective novels set in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland, all published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, including The Last Days of Newgate (2006), The Detective Branch (2010) and Bloody Winter (2011).

• Preface ; Introduction: Crime Fiction as Unwilling Executioner ; 1. 'A life of horrid and inimitable wickedness': Crime, Law and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London and Paris ; 2. 'Let us attack injustice at its source': Crime Literature in an Era of Revolution and Reform ; 3. 'A mysterious power whose hand is everywhere': Imagining the State and Codifying the Law in the Mid-Nineteenth Century ; 4. Crime, Business, and Liberty at the Turn of the Century: the Individual, the State and the Emergence of Modern Capitalism ; 5. 'No Good for Business': States of Crime in the 1920s and 1930s ; 6. 'On the Barricades': Crime Fiction and Commitment in an Era of Radical Politics ; 7. 1. From Sovereignty to Neoliberalism: Crime Fiction in the Contemporary World ; Conclusion ; Select Bibliography

Pepper offers nothing less than a long history of the crime novel as world literature, its roots in England but its branches universal.

Andrew Pepper is Senior Lecturer in English and American literature at Queen's University Belfast. He has written extensively about crime fiction over a twenty year period and is the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) and co-editor, with David Schmid, of Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Palgrave, 2016). He is also the author of five detective novels set in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland, all published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, including The Last Days of Newgate (2006), The Detective Branch (2010) and Bloody Winter (2011).

• Preface ; Introduction: Crime Fiction as Unwilling Executioner ; 1. 'A life of horrid and inimitable wickedness': Crime, Law and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London and Paris ; 2. 'Let us attack injustice at its source': Crime Literature in an Era of Revolution and Reform ; 3. 'A mysterious power whose hand is everywhere': Imagining the State and Codifying the Law in the Mid-Nineteenth Century ; 4. Crime, Business, and Liberty at the Turn of the Century: the Individual, the State and the Emergence of Modern Capitalism ; 5. 'No Good for Business': States of Crime in the 1920s and 1930s ; 6. 'On the Barricades': Crime Fiction and Commitment in an Era of Radical Politics ; 7. 1. From Sovereignty to Neoliberalism: Crime Fiction in the Contemporary World ; Conclusion ; Select Bibliography

Pepper offers nothing less than a long history of the crime novel as world literature, its roots in England but its branches universal.

Andrew Pepper is Senior Lecturer in English and American literature at Queen's University Belfast. He has written extensively about crime fiction over a twenty year period and is the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) and co-editor, with David Schmid, of Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Palgrave, 2016). He is also the author of five detective novels set in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland, all published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, including The Last Days of Newgate (2006), The Detective Branch (2010) and Bloody Winter (2011).

• Preface ; Introduction: Crime Fiction as Unwilling Executioner ; 1. 'A life of horrid and inimitable wickedness': Crime, Law and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London and Paris ; 2. 'Let us attack injustice at its source': Crime Literature in an Era of Revolution and Reform ; 3. 'A mysterious power whose hand is everywhere': Imagining the State and Codifying the Law in the Mid-Nineteenth Century ; 4. Crime, Business, and Liberty at the Turn of the Century: the Individual, the State and the Emergence of Modern Capitalism ; 5. 'No Good for Business': States of Crime in the 1920s and 1930s ; 6. 'On the Barricades': Crime Fiction and Commitment in an Era of Radical Politics ; 7. 1. From Sovereignty to Neoliberalism: Crime Fiction in the Contemporary World ; Conclusion ; Select Bibliography

Pepper offers nothing less than a long history of the crime novel as world literature, its roots in England but its branches universal.