London: 1840. The economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; the city is on the verge of anarchy and a murderer is prowling the backstreets and taverns of the cap
What gives crime fiction its distinctive shape and form? What makes it such a compelling vehicle of social and political critique? Unwilling Executioner argues that the answer lies in the emerging gen
In London of 1840, the economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital's poor neighborhoods. Pyke, still grieving over the death of h
It is 1834 and with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, railway fever sweeps the country. Pyke is uneasy with the luxury his aristocratic marriage has brought him, and when he is asked to unoffic
A book about the tensions between diversity and division in the crime novel, a genre that is itself defined by tensions and contradictions. Using the crime novel as a mirror for the complex social lan
London, 1843. Pyke has been part of the Metropolitan Police's newly formed "Detective Bureau" for six-months. Unsurprisingly Pyke is confronted by faceless opponents within the Bureau and the New P
