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From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which popular' and high'...

"The Web of Iniquity" is a study of detective fiction written by American women between the Civil War and World War II. Refuting the idea that no American detective fiction of substance was produced between the times of Edgar Allan Poe and Dashiell Hammett, Catherine Ross Nickerson shows how these women writers blended Gothic elements into domestic fiction to create a unique and all-but-ignored subgenre that she labels "domestic detective fiction."
This subgenre allowed women writers to participate in postbellum culture and to critique other aspects of a rapidly changing society. Domestic...

Anna Katharine Green was the most famous and prolific writer of detective fiction in the United States prior to Dashiell Hammett. Her first novel, "The Leavenworth Case, " was the bestseller of 1878. Green is credited with a number of "firsts" within the mystery genre, including the gentleman murdered as he makes out his will and the icicle as murder weapon. She created the first female detectives in American fiction. Her amateur spinster sleuth, Amelia Butterworth, became the prototype for numerous women detectives to follow, including Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Nosy, opinionated, and...

Before Raymond Chandler, before Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie, there was Metta Fuller Victor, the first American author man or woman of a full-length detective novel. This novel, "The Dead Letter," is presented here along with another of Victor s mysteries, "The Figure Eight." Both written in the 1860s and published under the name Seeley Regester, these novels show how by combining conventions of the mystery form first developed by Edgar Allan Poe with those of the domestic novel Victor pioneered the domestic detective story and paved the way for generations of writers to follow.

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