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
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
