British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia

The editor, Barry Forshaw, and about 50 contributors have produced a remarkably comprehensive book of reference. Forshaw makes clear in his Introduction that the “remit of this encyclopedia has been as wide as possible: every possible genre that is subsumed under the heading of crime fiction is here, from the novel of detection to the blockbuster thriller to the novel of espionage”. Magazines (including the Strand, obviously), television series (there are entries for Z Cars, Inspector Frost and Cracker), films (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, as an up‐to‐date example) and the Crime Writers Association...