From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell

SUSAN ROWLAND is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich. She is also author of C.G.Jing and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction (1999). She has published upon the work of Mich?le Roberts, Doris Lessing and Margaret Attwood, among others.

'Traditionally crime fiction ends with identifying the criminal and thus re-establishing the social and moral order. However Susan demonstrates that the six writers are concerned with replotting the process of crime novels in ways which affect the reading process.' - Christopher Dean, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society Newsletter

• Dedication Preface Lives of Crime Gendering the Genre Social Negotiations: Class, Crime and Power Lands of Hope and Glory?: Englishness, Race and Colonialism Detecting Psychoanalysis: Readers, Criminals and Narrative Crimes: A Literature of Terror and Horror The Spirits of Detection Feminism is Criminal Appendices Notes Selected Bibliography on Crime Fiction Index