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There are few contemporary guides that cover everything from the golden age to current bestselling writers from America, Britain and all across the world, but Barry Forshaw has provided a truly comprehensive survey. Every major writer is included, along with many other. Focusing on a key book (or books) by each writer, and with essays on key crime genres this is designed to be both a crime fan's shopping list and a pithy, opinionated but unstu...

It's one of the most successful - and surprising -- of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and proto-detectives) solving crimes in earlier eras. There is now an army of historical sleuths operating from the mean streets of ancient Rome to the Cold War era of the 1950s. Barry Forshaw, has written a lively, wide-ranging and immensely informed history of the genre, which might be said to have begun in earnest with Ellis Peter...

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Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day "Mockney" productions, it contextualizes the films and identifies important and neglected works.

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A guide to European crime fiction, film and TV, from the author of "Nordic Noir". Looks at influential authors such as Andrea Camilleri and Fred Vargas, TV such as "Spiral" and "Romanzo Criminale" and films such as "Rififi" and "Mesrine". Packed with author interviews.

A guide to the popular genre of Nordic noir and Scandinavian crime fiction, film and TV. Examines everything from Sjowall and Wahloo's influential "Martin Beck" series to Henning Mankell's "Wallander" books, Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy", and TV shows "The Killing, The Bridge" and "Borgen".

A guide to British crime fiction, film and TV, from leading expert Barry Forshaw. Packed with author interviews, it also covers Irish writers. Follows the success of "Nordic Noir" and "Euro Noir".

In the Man Who Left Too Soon, top crime fiction journalist Barry Forshaw gives us a fascinating insight into the life and works of this difficult, brilliant and multifaceted man.

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Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day "Mockney" productions, it contextualizes the films and identifies important and neglected works.

Coinciding with the BFI's major science fiction season, these special editions offer fascinating explorations of key films of the genre. Written by high-profile film critics and academics, each book features a stylish jacket design and film stills throughout.

His best-selling books are violent, terrifying, brilliantly written and have sold millions of copies around the world, but Stieg Larsson was not there to witness any of their international success. That he died in 2004 and his fame as an author is entirely posthumous demonstrates the dizzying speed with which his star has risen. But when one looks a little deeper at the man behind these phenomenal novels, it is clear that his life would be rem...

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Offers a unique perspective on American crime fiction from one of the UK's leading experts on crime fiction and film

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