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Crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies wherein the intersection of class, culture, and crime gets foregrounded - each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race, and politics. This collection of ten essays attempts to raise broad and complicated questions about the role of class and culture in transatlantic crime fiction beyond the Golde...

The 10 essays in this work examine the changing nature of British detective fiction, focusing on the shifting view of "otherness" of such authors as Ruth Rendell, Elizabeth George, Peter Ackroyd, Caroline Graham, Christopher Brookmyer, Denise Mina, and John Mortimer. Unlike their American counterparts, British detective writers are overwhelmingly white, and the essays here explore how these authors delve into ethnic diversity without the benef...