The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both

Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914 offers an overview of the changing nature of crime and its punishment from the Restoration to World War 1.

Private detectives and detective agencies played a major role in American history from 1870 to 1940. Pinkerton, Burns, Thiels, and the smaller independents were

This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children’s literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. It explores how t

This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. Whils