In The American Roman Noir, William Marling reads classic hard-boiled fiction and film in the contexts of narrative theories and American social and cultural hi

Looks beyond the tourist facade of Italy's capital. This is the real city of Fellini, Pasolini and countless other major artists who devoted their lives to depi

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

“All the heavy hitters, from Michael Connelly in Los Angeles to Joyce Carol Oates in suburban New Jersey . . . an important anthology.”—The New York Times

All the novelists studied were published initially in popular collections, such as the Serie noire, but they have been chosen for the innovation of their work a