Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Edinburgh; 'The map that engenders the territory'? Rethinking Ian Rankin's Edinburgh; Corralling Crime in Cardiff's Tiger Bay; Crimes and Contradictions: the Fictional City of Dublin; From National Authority to Urban Underbelly: Negotiations of Power in Stockholm Crime Fiction; Streets and Squares, Quartiers and Arrondissements: Paris Crime Scenesand the Poetics of Contestation in the Novels of Jean-François Vilar; The Mysteries of the Vatican: from Nineteenth-century Anti-clerical Propaganda to Dan Brown's Religious Thrillers
A Tale of Three Cities: Megalopolitan Mysteries of the 1840sConclusion; Index
Summary
A collection of academic essays by literary critics and writers of crime fiction - including a reflective essay by Ian Rankin on his own work - that explores the relationship between crime fiction and the urban spaces of the capital city
