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Introduction: Crime Fiction as Unwilling Executioner; 1 ’A Life of Horrid and Inimitable Wickedness’: Crime, Law, and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-century London and Paris; 2 ’Let Us Attack Injustice at Its Source’: Crime Literature in an Era of Revolution and Reform; 3 ’A Mysterious Power Whose Hand is Everywhere’: Imagining the State and Codifying the Law in the Mid-nineteenth Century; 4 Crime, Business, and Liberty at the Turn of the Century: The Individual, the State, and the Emergence of Modern Capitalism; 5 ’No Good for Business’: States of Crime in the 1920s and 1930s; 6 ’On the Barricades’: Crime Fiction and Commitment in an Era of Radical Politics; 7 From Sovereignty to Neoliberalism: Crime Fiction in the Contemporary World; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index

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