This extensive study of around 400 pages in large format is intended for scholars of crime fiction, and it is often quite dry and demanding to read. It takes a transnational approach and looks more toward the future than the past, which is not necessarily my personal preference, but it is still interesting reading. This is especially true when it cites passages from other studies such as John Scaggs’ Crime Fiction, Heather Worthington’s Key Concepts in Crime Fiction, Maurizio Ascari’s A Counter-History of Crime Fiction, and Dennis Porter’s The Pursuit of Crime.
The chapter on crime fiction and graphic novels was somewhat disappointing, as I expected it to present comics such as Alack Sinner and Sam Pezzo. The chapters that suited me best were Genre, Crime Histories and Prehistories, Crime Fiction in the Marketplace, and perhaps also Plotting and Clues, maybe because they deal precisely with what a crime fiction study should focus on: criminal fiction itself.
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